This policy brief points out that global, national and local interventions to address COVID-19 has also led to attention-shifting and resource-shifting from other diseases. It is important that the overall progress towards a malaria-free tomorrow continues. In particular, surveillance systems need to be reinvigorated from the sub-district to national level, malaria protection measures like insecticidal nets and indoor sprays need to be augmented through the COVID-19 supply-chain management, awareness measures for prevention and control assume importance as we have no information on malaria as a co-morbid condition for COVID19, the gram panchayats may ensure community participation, and that there is a need to converge the vector borne disease control and integrated disease surveillance programmes.