Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
MUMBAI: When Covid-19 ripped through India in 2020-2021, several million people are thought to have died. Desperate efforts to stem the pandemic hurt the battle against another huge killer: tuberculosis (TB).
India is the home to a quarter of the world's TB infections and an estimated half a million people died of the curable lung disease in 2020 in the South Asian nation — a third of the global toll.
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