Malawi is now at the high risk of the deadly coronavirus attack after one suspect has tested positive in South Africa, just a two hour flight away from Lilongwe. This has raised again the preparedness of the government of Malawi to prepare and prevent the attack which can be deadly to Malawi which has a […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi has defended his decision to make a donation of medical products to the People’s Republic of China, which has been hit by the fatal coronavirus, saying the super power was Malawi’s major development partner. Muluzi came under intense attack after he donated gloves and surgical masks to China […]
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are still in virtual coronavirus quarantine and yet to report for work in the Chinese New Year, millions of firms are facing bankruptcy and the country’s factory activity shrank at a record rate in February. With such gloomy circumstances and so much not to like it seems there is something […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi, whose party has entered into political alliance with the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of President Peter Mutharika, has donated medical supplies to the Chinese as it battles the coronavirus outbreak with more than 90,000 cases of the virus worldwide and more than 3,100 deaths from it. Muluzi, […]
The Chinese government has said Malawians living in Wuhan – where the coronavirus outbreak emerged – are safe from the killer outbreak. Ambassador Liu Hongyan said the Malawians in China include 63 students in Wuhan, the epicentre of the disease. Liu was speaking on Thursday at a news conference held at his embassy in Lilongwe. “No […]
Government has, with immediate effect, suspended the export of medical products as the Ministry of Health engages another gear in its preparation to battle coronavirus. This suspension comes barely a week after the country exported surgical masks to China which is the epicentre of the disease which has killed over 2000 people since January, 2019. […]
Government says six people who arrived from China in the past weeks have been quarantined in their homes as a preventive measured on coronavirus which has killed 1500 people so far outside Africa. Ministry of Health principal secretary Dan Namarika said the six have been quarantined in their own homes because the government has no […]
Minister of Health and Population Jappie Mhango has said his ministry is “doing everything possible” to ensure that killer coronavirus does not get “imported” in Malawi after its outbreak in China. Given the travels to and from China that are on the rise, there is fear that coronavirus case can be diagnosed in the country. […]
The Malawi Parliamentary Committee on Health and Population has commended the People’s Republic of China for the efforts it has, so far, put in place in curbing the spread of the deadly Coronavirus and the good news of a vaccine in the offing. The Committee has, however, recommended the monitoring of business travel to and […]
I just saw BBC news reporting that China is asking Chinese court to grant an injunction for the government to kill over 20,000 infected people of CoronaVirus. I have been contemplating and my internal conflict is based on either moral or religious grounds. Morally or religiously, one would be considered a heartless or an agent […]
The Ministry of Health has urged Malawians to temporarily stop traveling to China s amid an accelerating outbreak of a novel coronavirus up until it is contained there. Principal Secretary in the Ministry. Dr Dan Namarika said this following reports that one of the Malawian students studying in Wuhan is returning home. The corona virus outbreak […]
Government says it will quarantine a Malawian who is arriving from China for 14 days to screen and monitor him if he has the deadly corona virus or not. Ministry of Health principal secretary Dan Namarika said the Malawian, whose identity has been deliberately concealed, was studying in Wuhan, the epicentre of the disease. “He […]
Government has stepped up the detection of killer corona virus which has so far killed about 300 people, leaving 8000 people sick in China. The ministry of health has since given out face masks to all airport workers at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe and Chileka airport in Blantyre. Some workers at Kamuzu International Airport […]
At least 50 Malawians are stuck in Wuhan, ground zero of China’s coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 170 people and close to 7,000 people have been infected. Unlike countries such as the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom that are evacuating their citizens, the Malawi government has not made such arrangement. This has caused […]
Ministry of Health (MoH) says it is on high alert and taking preventive measures against the highly contagious outbreak of a pneumonia-like virus in China called Corona Virus which is dangerously spreading and has already killed at least two dozen people with hundreds affected. Although no cases of the deadly virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, […]