Geneva: Following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO – a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s.
"Today we congratulate the people of China on ridding the country of malaria," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, in a press release on Tuesday.
"Their success was hard-earned and came only after decades of targeted and sustained action. With this announcement, China joins the growing number of countries that are showing the world that a malaria-free future is a viable goal," he added.
China is the first country in the WHO Western Pacific Region to be awarded a malaria-free certification in more than 3 decades.
Other countries in the region that have achieved this status include Australia (1981), Singapore (1982) and Brunei Darussalam (1987).
Globally, 40 countries and territories have been granted a malaria-free certification from WHO – including, most recently, El Salvador (2021), Algeria (2019), Argentina (2019), Paraguay (2018) and Uzbekistan (2018).
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