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Health authorities in Beijing on Monday, said at the 30th World TB Day that there has been a significant strides in combating tuberculosis (TB) in the city.
Over the past decade (2014-2024), the Chinese capital’s TB incidence rate has dropped by 37.2 per cent, with an average annual decline of 4.5 per cent.
It said the maintaining of a treatment success rate exceeding 90 per cent, according to the Beijing municipal centre for disease control and prevention.
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National data had also showed that since 2012, China has reduced TB incidence and mortality by approximately 30 per cent nationwide.
Over this period, 7.85 million TB patients were diagnosed and treated with treatment success rates consistently above 90 per cent and mortality levels remaining low.
