ArticleMalaria journal2021
Has COVID19 derailed Bhutan's national malaria elimination goal? A commentary.
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- Estimating the impact of imported malaria on local transmission in a near elimination setting: a case study from Bhutan.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Article
- A Surge in Malaria Cases in the Eastern Health Region of Saudi Arabia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Cureus · 2023Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards COVID-19 among Patients Attending Phuentsholing Hospital, Bhutan: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and anti-pandemic measures on tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and malaria-A systematic review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Challenge and opportunity for vector control strategies on key mosquito-borne diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Risk Factors of Symptomatic COVID-19 in Samtse District, Bhutan.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Supporting countries to achieve their malaria elimination goals: the WHO E-2020 initiative.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Malaria incidence and mortality in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of routine surveillance data.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Toward COVID-19 Among Sherubtse College Students in Bhutan: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in public healthArticle
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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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