Till September 2017, 673474 cases of malaria were reported in India. A new World Malaria Report has claimed that in India the malaria surveillance mechanism detects a mere 8 per cent of cases, among the lowest in the world. Despite this, India accounts for 6 per cent of all malaria cases reported globally. Odisha features in the Malaria report too because of the spurt of cases it showed in 2016 – up to 449697 from 436850 the year before. In 2016, 91 countries reported a total of 216 million cases of malaria, an increase of 5 million cases over the previous year.

Source: Indian Express November 29, 2017 00:31 UTC