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Coronavirus threatens to reverse progress in TB fight: WHO

October 14, 2020 08:20 PM

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The novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to reverse global progress toward eliminating tuberculosis, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday.

"The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to unwind the gains made over recent years," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, because it was drawing resources away from fighting TB. 

 

 

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