COVID-19 pandemic has turned the clock back by years in the fight against other diseases. It has interrupted research, trials and other efforts to ease the public health burden.A regimen for Parkinson’s disease, for example, was to begin clinical trials this year.
But this was postponed because of the pandemic. ‘World first’ Parkinson’s treatment undergoing clinical trial in Toronto Researchers have warned that if COVID-19 halts distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets, cases of malaria might increase by 206 million and malaria deaths by 379,000 in sub-Saharan Africa.