1.3 million deaths from tuberculosis last year, warns WHO

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said people have died from TB for millennia without hope of treatment. 'Today, we have knowledge and tools they could only have dreamed of.' Picture: Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP

Access to treatment for tuberculosis around the world is recovering from the effects of the pandemic shutdowns, but there were still 1.3 million deaths from this disease last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.

The WHO called for “all hands on deck” to boost investment in fighting this disease, the world’s second leading infectious killer last year.