The number of people dying from tuberculosis has dropped by more than a third over the last 10 years but progress against the disease is still too slow, according to the World Health Organization.

Figures from WHO’s annual TB report showed that the lung disease took the lives of an estimated 1.13 million people in 2025, down from 1.7m in 2015, a drop of 35 per cent.

While WHO hailed this as a major milestone in achieving global targets - albeit five years too late - it said that progress in wiping out TB was still too slow.

Africa and Europe have made the greatest progress in reducing deaths, with numbers halving on both continents over the 10-year period.…