TB set to soar in Covid’s wake. Containing it will mean actively finding cases

In SA, TB testing halved between March and August, with studies putting global death figures at ‘2015 levels’

14 January 2021 - 19:34 By paul ash

The decades-long struggle to rid SA of tuberculosis may have suffered a reversal during the Covid-19 pandemic, say researchers...

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