India Coronavirus Dispatch: Pandemic may hurt Malaria eradication progress

61% Indians know someone who died of Covid, will vaccine revive international travel, 22 experts on how to prevent future pandemics-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Covid-19 may set back progress made in eradicating malaria

Improved targeting of interventions and tools, such as insecticide-treated nets and preventive medicines, and increased funding can speed up efforts to eliminate malaria by 2030. In 2019, total funding reached $3 billion against a global target of $5.6 billion, but the Covid-19 pandemic burden on health systems and global economy is expected to be a further set back. Read more here

61% Indians know one or more people in their social circles who died of Covid, survey says

India has recorded a total of 1,40,573 Covid-19 deaths till date and a