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Algeria now fourth African country to be declared malaria-free

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech at the opening day of the World health assembly on May 20, 2019 at the United Nations Offices in Geneva. On May 22, 2019, he announced that Algeria and Argentina are malaria-free. PHOTO | FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP

By  EUNICE KILONZO

Algeria is now the fourth African country after Lesotho, Mauritius and Seychelles to be declared malaria-free.

The announcement on May 22 by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also listed Argentina as being malaria-free, making it the second country in the Americas to achieve that status.

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