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WHO declares SL free of malaria
The UN agency had sent teams to Sri Lanka in the past three years to evaluate its efforts to ensure there was **t a single indige**us malaria case since 2012, the ministry said in a statement. "Minister Rajitha Senaratne was presented today with a certificate confirming Sri Lanka’s malaria-free status by the WHO," the statement said adding that the island had set up a unit to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease. The an**uncement came as Colombo hosted a meeting of the WHO regional committee for South East Asia. Sri Lanka’s state-run Anti-Malaria Campaign said 180 cases of malaria were detected in the country in the past three years, but all the victims had contracted the disease abroad. "Sri Lanka has **w completed three consecutive years without indige**us malaria, an achievement seen never before," the campaign said. There had been ** deaths due to indige**us malaria since 2007. أكثر... 
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