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Global tuberculosis report 2020
October 22 , 2020
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- The World Health Organization recently released the Global Tuberculosis Report, 2020.
- The report says that COVID-19 could push Tuberculosis related deaths in the world to eight years back.
- In other words, it might increase the TB deaths by 0.2 to 0.4 million.
Highlights
- Philippines, Indonesia and South Africa account to 44% of global TB cases in the world.
- The three countries that have the largest burden of drug-resistant TB are India, China and Russia.
- The eight countries, that are home to two-thirds of global TB cases, are India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Russia.
- Between 2015 and 2019, there were 9% reduction of TB incidence and 14% reduction in TB deaths.
- India has the highest TB burden in the world.
- It accounts to 26% of total global TB cases.
- India registered a decline in notification of Tuberculosis cases by 85% in April 2020.
- The number of TB deaths could be between 200,000 and 400,000.
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