Telling Numbers: TB burden in India and world, and the declining rates | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling Numbers: TB burden in India and world, and the declining rates | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: October 19, 2019 9:25:01 am

Telling Numbers: TB burden in India and world, and the declining rates

Of the 10 million new cases, 7 million were reported to authorities, including 1.99 million of the 2.69 million in India. Globally, TB claimed 15 lakh lives in 2018, including 2.51 lakh with HIV.

Of the 10 million new cases, 7 million were reported to authorities, including 1.99 million of the 2.69 million in India. (File)

On Thursday, the World Health Organization released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report for 2019, which found India was able to reduce incidence in 2018 by almost 50,000 cases from the previous year, but still had the highest burden with 2.69 million cases — 26.9% of the global burden of 10 million (The Indian Express, October 18).