Has COVID19 derailed Bhutan’s national malaria elimination goal? A commentary
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in massive global disruptions with considerable impact on the delivery of health services and national health programmes. Since the detection of the first COVID-19 case on 5th March 2020, the Royal Government of Bhutan implemented a number of containment m...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6e972ce1125f4252b342a1c772014041 2023-05-15T15:05:02+02:00 Has COVID19 derailed Bhutan’s national malaria elimination goal? A commentary Kinley Penjor Tobgyal Tandin Zangpo Archie C. A. Clements Darren J. Gray Kinley Wangdi 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03562-5 https://doaj.org/article/6e972ce1125f4252b342a1c772014041 EN eng BMC https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03562-5 https://doaj.org/toc/1475-2875 doi:10.1186/s12936-020-03562-5 1475-2875 https://doaj.org/article/6e972ce1125f4252b342a1c772014041 Malaria Journal, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-3 (2021) Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03562-5 2022-12-31T06:56:46Z Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in massive global disruptions with considerable impact on the delivery of health services and national health programmes. Since the detection of the first COVID-19 case on 5th March 2020, the Royal Government of Bhutan implemented a number of containment measures including border closure and national lockdowns. Against the backdrop of this global COVID-19 pandemic response, there was a sudden surge of locally-transmitted malaria cases between June to August 2020. There were 20 indigenous cases (zero Plasmodium falciparum and 20 Plasmodium vivax) from a total of 49 cases (seven P. falciparum and 42 P. vivax) in 2020 compared to just two from a total of 42 in 2019. Over 80% of the cases were clustered in malaria endemic district of Sarpang. This spike of malaria cases was attributed to the delay in the delivery of routine malaria preventive interventions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Bhutan is unlikely to achieve the national goal of malaria elimination by 2020. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Malaria Journal 20 1 |
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in massive global disruptions with considerable impact on the delivery of health services and national health programmes. Since the detection of the first COVID-19 case on 5th March 2020, the Royal Government of Bhutan implemented a number of containment measures including border closure and national lockdowns. Against the backdrop of this global COVID-19 pandemic response, there was a sudden surge of locally-transmitted malaria cases between June to August 2020. There were 20 indigenous cases (zero Plasmodium falciparum and 20 Plasmodium vivax) from a total of 49 cases (seven P. falciparum and 42 P. vivax) in 2020 compared to just two from a total of 42 in 2019. Over 80% of the cases were clustered in malaria endemic district of Sarpang. This spike of malaria cases was attributed to the delay in the delivery of routine malaria preventive interventions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Bhutan is unlikely to achieve the national goal of malaria elimination by 2020. |
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Has COVID19 derailed Bhutan’s national malaria elimination goal? A commentary |
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