Currently, a child dies from malaria every minute, and in almost every case, that child is in Africa.

According to the latest global malaria report from the World Health Organization (WHO), released last week, 627,000 people worldwide (mostly children under the age of five in Africa) have died from malaria. last year , three times more than the number of people recorded as having died from the coronavirus in Africa.

With an updated methodology used to calculate the number of deaths among children under 5, the report takes a different look at the true burden of malaria in Africa. In 2020, an increase in malaria cases and malaria deaths was recorded, with most occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the new methodology explains this increase, it only tells part of the story.