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4:30 CAT | 23 Nov 2022
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Mozambique recorded 9.4 million cases of malaria in the first nine months of this year, an increase of 20% compared to the same period in 2021, Mozambique’s health minister announced on Wednesday.
“In the first nine months of 2022 alone, 9.4 million cases of malaria were registered, compared to 7.8 million in the same period of 2021, representing an increase of 20%,” Armindo Tiago said during a meeting on malaria control in Maputo.
According to the minister, the rise in the number of cases was due to the “inevitable impact of climate change” and to the “worsening of environmental conditions that favour the multiplication of mosquitoes.
The health minister said that the road to eliminating malaria in Mozambique “is still long” and warned that measures to prevent the disease had to be stepped up during the current rainy season, which could increase the number of cases.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report of December 2021, Mozambique is one of six sub-Saharan African countries in which over half of all cases of malaria in the world are concentrated: they are Nigeria (27% of world cases), Democratic Republic of Congo (12%), Uganda (5%), Mozambique (4%), Angola (3.4&) and Burkina Faso (3.4%).
Source: Lusa
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