After Covid, India now grapples with TB

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 28, 2022 12:18 am

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.

ANOTHER HEALTH CRISIS In this picture taken on March 22, 2022, Gautam Kamble, who is diagnosed with tuberculosis, holds chest x-rays during a routine consultation with a doctor at the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Mumbai, which treats people with drug-resistant tuberculosis. 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. AFP PHOTO

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