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Has COVID19 derailed Bhutan’s national malaria elimination goal? A commentary

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dc.contributor.authorPenjor, Kinley
dc.contributor.authorTobgyal
dc.contributor.authorZangpo, Tandin
dc.contributor.authorClements, Archie
dc.contributor.authorGray, Darren
dc.contributor.authorWangdi, Kinley
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-06T23:34:32Z
dc.date.available2022-06-06T23:34:32Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-06
dc.date.updated2021-01-10T09:05:48Z
dc.description.abstractThe 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 frst 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.en_AU
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dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_AU
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021.en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceMalaria Journalen_AU
dc.titleHas COVID19 derailed Bhutan’s national malaria elimination goal? A commentaryen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationPenjor, Kinley, Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Gelephu, Bhutanen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationTobgyal, Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Gelephu, Bhutanen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationZangpo, Tandin, Department of Public Health, Communicable Disease Division, Ministry of Health, Thimphu, Bhutanen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationClements, Archie C. A., Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australiaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGray, Darren J., Department of Global Health, College of Health and Medicine, Research School of Population Health, Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWangdi, Kinley, Department of Global Health, College of Health and Medicine, Research School of Population Health, Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu5608272en_AU
local.description.notesImported from Springer Natureen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationU1070655xPUB295
local.identifier.citationvolume20en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1186/s12936-020-03562-5en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.malariajournal.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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