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India notified 2.4 mn tuberculosis cases, 79,144 deaths in 2019: Govt

On the basis of the score in State TB Index, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and HP were the best-performing states for tuberculosis control under the category of states with 5 mn population

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The salient feature of this year is that for the first time Central TB Division (CTD) introduced a quarterly ranking on TB elimination efforts by all the states and UTs.

Press Trust of India New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Jun 24 2020 | 8:06 PM IST

India notified the highest number of 2.4 million tuberculosis cases last year as against an estimated 2.69 million cases by WHO, indicating that around 300,000 patients missed out from the national TB programme, according to an annual report on the disease released on Wednesday.

The India TB Report 2020 stated that 79,144 deaths due to tuberculosis were reported in 2019, which is much lower than the WHO estimate of 440,000 fatalities, officials said.

According to them, the "missing cases" -- the gap between estimated incidences and notified cases -- has drastically reduced from over 1 million in 2017 to 290,000

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