World Health Organization says disruptions to treatment could lead to tens of thousands additional deaths.

Funding shortfalls and disruptions to treatment in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic risk tens of thousands more lives being lost to malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report on the mosquito-borne disease on Monday.

The survey was based on mathematical projections of the progress made by endemic zones in reducing the malaria burden.