In the early days of pandemic, WHO had projected that – with severe service disruptions – malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa could potentially double in 2020.
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这些额外死亡人数中约有三分之二(47000例死亡)与大流行期间疟疾预防、诊断和治疗服务中断有关。
But many countries took urgent action to shore up their malaria programmes, averting this worst-case scenario.
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情况本来可能还要糟糕得多。
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to carry the heaviest malariaburden, accounting for about 95% of all malaria cases and 96% of all deaths in 2020.
The pandemic struck at a point when global progress against malaria had already plateaued.
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该地区约80%的死亡病例是5岁以下的儿童。
By around 2017, there were signs that the phenomenal gains made since 2000—including a 27% reduction in global malaria case incidence and a nearly 51% reduction in the malaria mortality rate—were stalling.
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大流行发生的时候,全球疟疾防治工作就已经停滞不前。
“Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, global gains against malaria had levelled off,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.