Except for the age difference of the victims, those numbers actually make covid seem pretty bad. Covid has hardly been around for a year and is killing 7x as many people a year.
COVID is bad, but in some ways we got lucky because there could have been way worse pandemics that acted more like smallpox or measles.
Malaria, like HIV or Herpes, is a chronic disease. Once you're infected, you're affected by it until you die. The debilitating effects of malaria also have disastrous economic impacts.