China has been certified as malaria-free by the World Health Organization, following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.
- The country reported 30 million cases of the infectious disease annually in the 1940s but has now gone four consecutive years without an indigenous case.
- China is now the 40th territory certified malaria-free by the WHO . The last countries to gain the status were El Salvador (2021), Algeria and Argentina (2019), and Paraguay and Uzbekistan (2018).
