The current context may have a serious impact on sub-Saharan Africa: Doubling the number of deaths from malaria. Instead of dealing with the coronavirus, mosquito distributions and malaria remedies are expected to be reduced. This can lead to an increase in disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for continued efforts to combat malaria, despite the fact that the fight against coronavirus is essential. According to the calculations of this structure, in the worst case scenario, malaria will reach 769,000 deaths in 2020 in sub-Saharan Africa, twice as much as in 2018. 405,000 died from this disease in 2018.
This region of the world is the most affected by malaria, with 93 per cent of cases. In addition, the coronavirus is also spreading on this continent and the WHO has also raised the alarm about it:WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged Africans to prepare to "live worse than the bad situation."