Malaria Death Toll to Exceed COVID-19 Deaths in sub-Saharan Africa – WHOBy Abdulateef AhmedNovember 30, 2020 More than 409,000 people globally; most of them children in the impoverished parts of Africa were killed by malaria last year, the WHO said in its latest global malaria report, and COVID-19 will almost certainly make that toll higher in 2020.