{"id":116728,"date":"2021-06-30T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=116728"},"modified":"2021-06-30T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:13:32","slug":"china-certified-as-malaria-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/china-certified-as-malaria-free\/","title":{"rendered":"China Certified as Malaria free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which country has been certified malaria free recently by WHO?<\/strong><br>a) China<br>b) India<br>c) Pakistan<br>d) Bangladesh<br><strong>Ans: a<br>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>China was certified Malaria free by Who on 30 June 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Malaria, a completely preventable and treatable disease, is also deadly. In 2019, it cost 409,000 lives globally.<\/li><li>In early 70s China reported over 24 million cases but it has reported zero indigenous malaria cases since 2017.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Which Nation can get Malaria Free status?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The end goal for all malaria-endemic countries is certification of malaria elimination, the official recognition by WHO of a country\u2019s malaria-free status.<\/li><li>WHO grants the certification when a country has proven that the chain of indigenous malaria transmission has been interrupted nationwide for at least the past three consecutive years.<\/li><li>A country must also demonstrate the capacity to prevent the re-establishment of transmission.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Status of China<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>China has become 40th territory to get malaria-free status by WHO. Four other countries that gained the status recently were El Salvador in 2021, Algeria &amp; Argentina in 2019, and Paraguay &amp; Uzbekistan in 2018.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>India and Malaria<br>As per World Malaria Report 2020 :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India is the only high endemic country which has reported a decline of 17.6% in 2019 as compared to 2018.<\/li><li>The Annual Parasite Incidence (API, the number of new infections per year per 1000 population) reduced by 18.4% in 2019 as compared to 2018.<\/li><li>India achieved a reduction of 83.34% in malaria morbidity and 92% in malaria mortality between the year 2000 and 2019, thereby achieving Goal 6 of the Millennium Development Goals.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By kameshwar shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference : <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/china\/news\/commentaries\/detail\/china-certified-as-malaria-free-by-who\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/china\/news\/commentaries\/detail\/china-certified-as-malaria-free-by-who<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which country has been certified malaria free recently by WHO?a) Chinab) Indiac) Pakistand) BangladeshAns: aContext China was certified Malaria free by Who on 30 June 2021. Facts Malaria, a completely preventable and treatable disease, is also deadly. In 2019, it cost 409,000 lives globally. In early 70s China reported over 24 million cases but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":116729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-116728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116730,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116728\/revisions\/116730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}