The Malawi Police Service (MPS) on Monday arrested 12 more suspects in relation to abuse of Covid-19 funds , brining the total of those arrested for abuse of Covid-19 funds after the release of the audit report to 31. In a statement, National Police Spokesperson James Kadadzera said investigations are still ongoing and warned of […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has dropped Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo from his Cabinet after he took K1.4 million from the ministry’s project account on Covid-19, to use as allowances on a trip to South Africa last year, and the Malawi leader has warned to pursue thieving public officers implicated in the K6.2 billion investigative audit […]
Rights activists are demanding that the government should investigate and blacklist all companies that inflated prices for goods and services during the Covid-19 pandemic. In an audit report, it has been revealed that some companies inflated prices to benefit from the K6.2 billion Covid-19 money. One such company is a fumigation firm owned by Pastor […]
Vocal journalist Mzati Nkolokosa has been implicated in the abuse of Covid-19 for allegedly being involved in making questionable funds request and ridiculous expenditure. While working as the Director of Information, according the Covid-19 funds abuse report, Nkolokosa got K650 000 for fuel to boost ‘online presence of Covid-19 messages’. Social media is already mocking […]
A powerful parliamentary committee has been informed how ministries literally fought for K6.2 billion Covid-19 funds soon after the money was released by the Reserve Bank of Malawi and according to the reading of an audit report, it becomes apparent the plunder of Covid-19 funds was a well calculated move. Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) […]
Malawian UK Nurses Association (MUNA), an embodiment of like-minded Malawian physicians based in the UK, will hold yet another COVID-19 online conference (webinar) on Friday, April 16 at 20:00hrs Malawi time, this time tackling ‘Mental Health & Well-being — Pandemic Coping Strategies. The speakers are Ethel Changa who is a mental health specialist nurse and an England National Health […]
The audit report on the K6.2 billion Covid plunder under the watch of President Lazarus Chakwera has faulted the presidential taskforce on Covid failing “in its duties to act on the procurement of personal protective equipemtn (PPEs) of K850,000,000.00 by the Ministry of Health and Central Medical Stores Trust. In essence the report exposes Health […]
A month and a week since President Lazarus Chakwera launched the COVID-19 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccination program on 11th March, 240,744 doses have been administered in the country with 11,524 being administered in the past 24 hours of Wednesday. However, 16,440 vaccine doses have expired as of Tuesday, 13th April due to people not taking advantage of […]
National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc on Thursday handed over items worth K10 million to the Citizens Response to Covid-19 Initiative for the fight against the pandemic. The Bank pledged to pay for the items a few months ago after members of the Initiative, which is being led by France based Onjezani Kenani sourced the […]
Government says pregnant women can now get the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. This follows recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO). Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has confirmed this Numerous questions have been raised over the past week on who qualifies to receive the jab. While some vaccination centres are allowing breastfeeding and pregnant women […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said government was likely to ease some of the restrictions put in place to fight Covid-19 pandemic in the near future if the gains being attained in the fight against the pandemic would uphold. He disclosed this on Sunday during his monthly address to Malawians from Mtunthama State Lodge in Lilongwe […]
Health officials say over 90,000 people have so far received the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in the country since it was rolled out three weeks ago. This is according to an update presented by the Presidential Taskforce on Covid -19. The government rolled out the Covid 19 vaccination exercise three weeks ago, across the country, on […]
Malawi Police in Balaka have arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly inciting people to beat up ministry of Education officials who were visiting a school, suspecting they wanted to forcibly vaccinate children against Covid-19. Police have identified the suspect as Joseph Mkwanda who allegedly inciting violence at Chitimbe Primary School in Balaka. On the material […]
Councils are yet to start giving out free face masks to people two months after they were directed to do so. In January this year, Treasury released K1 billion to all district and city councils for the procurement of face masks for free distribution. This exercise was meant to help people who cannot afford to […]
Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda says government will increase the number of health personnel as well as vaccination sites for Covid 19. This follows crowding in most centres currently providing the vaccine. So far private hospitals are not allowed to provide the vaccine. The second phase of the vaccination exercise started on Monday this […]
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine being administered in Malawi developed with Oxford University is is both safe and highly effective, new trial data from the United States shows. Research involving more than 30,000 participants revealed the jab was 79 per cent effective at preventing symptomatic illness, 100% effective against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation, according to […]
The Presidential Taskforce on Covid 19 has ruled out chances that the country would be hit by the third wave of the pandemic. The positivity rate rose from 9.7 percent on Thursday to 11.2 percent on Friday. On Saturday it dropped to 7.2 percent after 42 people tested positive. Cumulatively, Malawi has recorded 33,216 cases […]
The Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) says it has not designated any private health facility as a vaccination centre. The office is clarifying a message circulating in social media concerning the Covid-19 vaccination at a private clinic, Malmed in Blantyre. The message apparently from the Asian Community suggested that members of the Asian/Indian community had […]