Up until recently, Malawians were just hearing about strict new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus, including a ban on public gatherings on TV and social media. Whether they were hearing about lcokdown from friends and family in other countries or on news feeds, they were hearing about it. While many were trying to embrace […]
Listed National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc Wednesday donated face masks worth K2 million to Blantyre City Council (BCC)’s ‘Donate a mask’ campaign to protect vulnerable school pupils in the city from Covid-19 pandemic. Making the donation in Blantyre, Chief Executive Officer for NBM Development Bank Limited, a subsidiary for NBM plc Lucious Mandala said […]
Government has made wearing face masks at Airports mandatory and all travellers coming into Malawi will be required to produce a Covid-19 negative certificate upon arrival at the airport. Announcing new prevention measures put in place at the airport for the incoming passengers, Minister of Health Khumbidze Chiponda said travellers be asked to exhibit the […]
Britain has announced that Malawi is among the eight countries that will benefit from a new UK £119 million (about K120 billion) aid package to combat the threat of coronavirus and famine. This is contained in a statement by British High made available to Nyasa Times announcing UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) merger with the Foreign Office […]
Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP)–a 6,500 hectare plantation located in Viphya Plantation–has made the first global para-Menthane, 3, 8-diol (PMD)-based sanitiser called Virisafe, which will help reduce the transmission rates of the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Malawi and the entire African region. KHP has disclosed this in a statement made available to Nyasa Times. In the […]
First Lady Monica Chakwera has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to Dowa District Hospital and persuaded Malawians to support government in fighting the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, saying tackling the life-threatening disease together is the best option. Speaking at Dowa Community Ground after presenting her PPE donation, the First Lady called for support of government to […]
Malawi’s restrictions on social interactions to contain the coronavirus outbreak are working and have flattened the curve of new life-threatening pandemic virus cases, co-chairperson of the presidential taskforce on Covid-19, Dr John Phuka said on Tuesday. In his situation report, Phuka said the country’s data suggests that there is steady reduction in the new cases […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has bemoaned the reckless behavior of many men in Malawi in observing measures aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), saying such an attitude defeats efforts to combat the spread of virus pandemic. In his weekly address to the nation, Chakwera said government statistics indicate that more men in the country […]
Ministry of Health assistant director of clinical services Hastings Chiumia has expressed satisfaction with rehabilitation works at old Mzimba District Hospital which will be turned into a Covid-19 treatment centre. The rehabilitation works are being done by Malawi Red Cross Society (MRC). Chiumia expressed satisfaction with the quality of the structure, saying the treatement centre […]
The country’s Ombudsman Martha Chizuma has dressed down Blantyre District Commissioner (DC), Bennet Nkasala, for demonstrating lack of good management and leadership practices in the way dealt with frontline health workers undertaking coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-related work at Kameza Isolation Centre. Nkasala and the health workers have been at loggerheads over disagreements over the category of […]
Ministry of Education has said teachers, who have been asking for Covid-19 risk allowance consideration, will have to wait a little longer for response as the matter is still under discussion. Teachers demand for risk allowance attracted a heat debate, resulting in bad blood between teachers and journalists George Kasakula of Times Media and Kondwa […]
Malawi government has resolved to partially reopen primary and secondary chools, colleges and universities on September 7, 2020, with students sitting for their final examinations expected to start. The government said this is a deliberate move to enable it monitor the prevalence of the marauding coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Government ordered closure of all schools in […]
Malawi will allow foreign airlines to resume operations from September 1, as it seeks to limit the economic and social damage from its coronavirus restrictions, authorities said on Thursday. Airports have been closed since March, when the government imposed struck restrictions to try to contain the global pandemic. Malawi has recorded 5474 cases and 173 […]
Minister of Health Khumbidze Kandodo Chiponda has said latest confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the country highlights a major signal towards possible successful fight against the global health pandemic. Chiponda’s observation follows the confirmation of five new cases, 47 recoveries and one new death. These figures were announced on Monday, August, 24 2020. The […]
Pope Francis has made a generous donation of several ventilators to the Likuni Mission Hospital in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The gift was made in the Pope’s name by Archbishop Gianfranco Gallone, the Apostolic Nuncio to Malawi and Zambia. Archbishop Tarcisius Ziyaye of Lilongwe delivered the ventilators to the Missionary Sisters of St Francis of Assisi, […]
Ntchisi District on Saturday recorded its first coronavirus (Covid-19) death. According to Ntchisi District Health Promotion Officer, Samson Mfuyeni, the deceased was a 75-year-old man who died at Kamuzu Central Hospital Isolation Ward where he was referred to last Monday. Burial was conducted by health personnel as per guidelines. The district has so far recorded […]
Deputy Speaker Madalitso Kazombo, who is also Kasungu East MP, has said he was disheartened to see angry residents of Wimbe Trading Centre in Kasungu district on Friday snatching a body of Covid-19 victim from the health officials to burry themselves. Kazombo was rebuffed even after he literally lay prostrate in trying to persuade the people that they […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has said it is the responsibility of any capable individuals to support government in its fight against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic because its further spread is catastrophic for the Malawi economy and the population. He said this on Thursday, August 20, 2020 after he donated assorted Personal […]