Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Sunday said that India has recorded a 97 per cent reduction in malaria cases and over 90 per cent improvement in kala-azar, reflecting the country’s steady progress towards becoming malaria-free.
During a meeting conducted by the health ministry, which included the Secretary, Punya Salila Srivastava, and other senior officers, Nadda reviewed the current Dengue and Malaria situation in the country.
At a high-level meeting at the Delhi Secretariat, the Chief Minister directed senior officials to initiate fogging operations ahead of the scheduled time to ensure the early containment of mosquito-borne diseases.
Namibia has recorded 56,130 malaria cases and 95 deaths since the beginning of the current malaria season in December 2024, Health Minister Esperance Luvindao said.
The latest victim of malaria is a person from Behala and in the past six months more than two hundred people have suffered from malaria and two of them have died.
With the monsoon season having just arrived and a long way to go, the spurt in diseases like malaria has set an early alarm bell for the district civil and health department officials.
In its ongoing pursuit to make Uttar Pradesh malaria-free by 2027, the Yogi Adityanath government is focusing on investigating every malaria case and ensuring complete treatment for every patient.
Malaria during pregnancy poses significant risks to the brain development of babies, experts said on World Malaria Day on Thursday.
This is the only known locally acquired case of malaria in Arkansas, Xinhua news agency reported.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that climate change is causing dengue and other mosquito-borne illnesses including chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika to spread more quickly and widely
