China News Service, November 30. According to foreign media reports, on the 30th local time, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the latest issue of the World Malaria Report, stating that 409,000 people died of malaria in 2019 and lack of tools to deal with malaria. The global effort to contain the disease is undermining, and the new crown pandemic will further hinder humanity’s fight against malaria.

WHO calls on all countries and partners to step up the fight against malaria.

　　According to Reuters, Alonso, director of the WHO Global Malaria Program, said: "We estimate that based on the degree of service interruption due to the new crown epidemic, the number of people who die of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa may be 20,000 to 10 more. Ten thousand people, and most of them are children." "The death rate of malaria is very likely to be greater than the number of people who are directly killed by the new coronavirus."

　　The WHO report pointed out that the total number of malaria cases worldwide reached 229 million in 2019, and this data has hardly changed in the past four years.

In 2019, 409,000 people died of malaria, compared with 411,000 people in 2018.

Despite the struggles of many countries, the long-term goal of eradicating malaria within one generation is still far away.

　　Some African countries with the worst malaria have been unable to make major progress in the prevention and treatment of malaria since 2016.

　　The report pointed out that because malaria continues to spread through mosquitoes in many parts of the world, half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting this disease, and a child dies of malaria every 2 minutes.

Nonetheless, the focus of global funding and attention has been shifted, making preventable child deaths more likely.

　　Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said: “The global health community, media, and politics are all tied up by the new crown and cannot move... However, we rarely pay attention to this, which kills more than 400,000 people every year, and mainly It’s a child’s disease.” He pointed out that the findings reported by the WHO were “very timely”.