The Director General of Immigration and Citizenship Services, Masauko Medi, has urged immigration officers in the country to institute intensive patrols and seal off uncharted routes in the country’s bordering districts as a measure of containing the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the country. Malawi is still safe from Covid-19, which has claimed 0ver […]
The Civil Society Education Coalition (Csec) has warned that the indefinite closure of learning institutions in the country as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of Coronavirus might derange learners if not construed rightly as government is being asked to help parents use ICT for homeschooling. Csec executive directcor, Benedicto Kondowe has since advised […]
As you read this, be advised that Malawi has two real threats with a capacity to throw this country in a big political crisis. The first threat is already with us, well diagnosed and it’s leadership failure. The second threat, not yet with us but it will be here shortly, is the Coronavirus (Covid-19). We […]
Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) is appealing to partners to assist the office with beds to be used at the quarantine facility at Kameza in the district. Meanwhile, the facility has only 10 beds. Blantyre District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr. Miriam Jere revealed on Friday of the facility’s situation during a stakeholders’ meeting which attracted […]
Minibus Owners Association of Malawi (MOAM) has agreed to reduce passengers capacity to two people per sit in a quest to protect citizens from corona virus pandemic. Moam together with officials from road traffic made the resolution on Thursday during a meeting aimed at finding ways of protecting passengers from the deadly virus despite the […]
Muslim Youth United (MYU), who adopted and takes care of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Queens) neurosurgical and orthopaedic wards of the Pediatric section, has donated health products for better care of the patients against Coronavirus (COVID-19). The donated items include 1,000 face masks, 50 washing stations, liquid dispensers and disinfectant fluids. Muslim Youth United is supporting Pediatric […]
Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM) on Friday conducted COVID-19 orientation workshop targeting employees of various government departments and private organizations working at Mwanza Border Post. PHIM Deputy Team Leader Dr. Evelyn Chitsa Banda said her organization conducted the workshop in order to sensitize the staff on causes, transmission and prevention of the disease which […]
Minister of Homeland Security Nicholas Dausi has says general lockdown remains an option in the face of the coronavirus (Covid-19) but that it is too early to order curfew of citizens. Dausi said this when a special Cabinet committee on coronavirus outlined strict new measures to tackle the coronavirus at a news conference in Lilongwe. […]
A global shortage of condoms is looming, the world’s biggest producer said, after a movement control order (MCO) forced it to shut down production. Malaysia’s Karex Bhd makes one in every five condoms globally. It has not produced a single condom from its three Malaysian factories in the past 10 days due to the MCO […]
Malawi special Cabinet committee on coronavirus has outlined strict new measures to tackle the pandemic from spreading in the country, including decongesting the country’s prisons by pardoning the sick, old and lactating mothers from the country’s prisons. This was disclosed by five cabinet ministers led by Minister of Health and Population Jappie Mhango at a […]
Prophet TB Joshua of Nigeria is under spotlight over his controversial prophecy that the novel coronavirus could be coming to an end this Friday March 27th Read, yet no vaccine or cure is in sight. TB Joshua, leader of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, told congregants on March 15 that the coronavirus, also known […]
Malawi needs to steps up efforts to address shortage of ventilators in public hospitals —which provide roughly 80 percent of health care services in the country — due to coronavirus (Covid-19) threat as more lives will be lost if the pandemic gets to the country. The World Health Organization has urged all countries to […]
The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Looking tired but otherwise well, the Prime Minister, 55, broke the news to the nation in a video posted on his Twitter account. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus. “I am now self-isolating, but I will […]
In the light of Coronavirus pandemic, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Phiri has disclosed plans to decongest flea markets across the country as one way of adhering to preventive measures against the virus. The minister made the remarks on Thursday at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre during the official launch of prevention and […]
World Vision Malawi (WVM) has donated medical supplies and equipment worth K80 million to Ministry of Health in a drive to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country. The donated items included 50,000 gloves, 3,000 face masks 1,000 gowns 12 tonnes of powdered soap, 90×20 kgs of chlorine 8 tonnes of assorted bar […]
Salima district commissioner Grace Chirwa has urged the Primary Health Emergency Management Committee to be vigilant in sourcing resources with which to prevent coronavirus. She made the call on Wednesday during an orientation meeting for the committee members which was also meant to develop the district’s emergency preparedness and response plan conducted with support from […]
Machinga district director of health and social services Arnold Kapachipa says the district’s hospital has put in place coronavirus prevention measures to ensure patients’ safety. He said this in an interview on Tuesday following a meeting held on Monday on the same. “We came up with measures such as placing hand-washing facilities at entry points […]
He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. — 2 Chronicles 15:2 Since the world learned about the Coronavirus, a flu-like […]