COVID-19 caused rise in TB deaths for first time in a decade, gains ‘reversed’

Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world - have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. 

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