Thursday, March 4, 2021 Nearly 3 million people from Mangochi, Balaka and Nkhata Bay are safe from malaria. This follows a successful Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) project by World Vision and the Ministry of Health, informed by a review of malaria prevention interventions organised by World Vision and the Malawi Ministry of Health. Celebrating the milestone, Deputy Director in the Ministry of Health responsible for malaria prevention, National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) Doctor Michael Kayange said this is important considering the need to keep malaria in check, especially now that the country is also grappling with COVID-19. “We have done so well, because our spray coverage is over 90% in all the districts where we have rolled out IRS. Consequently, we have also reduced malaria incidences by over 50% in Mangochi [and Nkhotakota] where we started implementing the project earlier on”, said Kayange. He later stressed on the need for people to stay vigilant with malaria because even in the midst of COVID-19, the disease is still claiming many lives.