The sharp drop in notifications reflects the catastrophic diversion of health resources—testing kits, lab technicians, public transport—from TB to COVID-19 triage, not a true decline in incidence. The undiagnosed continued transmitting in households and were sicker when finally found, increasing future mortality and treatment costs. My own daughter-in-law, a lab technician, was redeployed for months to a COVID testing booth, her usual sputum samples piled unseen in a corner—that reallocation has a human ledger the graphs do not show.
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