THE Ndola City Council would like to advise everyone using disposable masks to ensure they tear them up before throwing them away.
The Public health department is further encouraging users of gloves and face masks that they should be washed with water and soap for 20 seconds, and then be cut into small parts to prevent re-using them.
The Local Authority is sad to learn that some street garbage pickers are picking disposable masks, washing them and offering them for resale to unsuspecting residents.
This is very dangerous and any such individuals involved in this vice will actually be prosecuted. The Local Authority is also advising residents against the purchase of disposable face masks from the streets.
Meanwhile, the Ndola City Council would also like to remind residents using reusable masks to ensure they wash them with soap every so often as well as press them with heat.
The Public Health Department is therefore encouraging those using reusable masks to have at least two or three.
And as a reminder noting that the use of face masks is mandatory, the Ndola City Council would like to encourage the proper use of face masks;
• Before putting on a mask, clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• Cover mouth and nose with mask and make sure there are no gaps between your face and the mask.
• Avoid touching the mask while using it; if you do, clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• Replace the mask with a new one as soon as it is damp and do not re-use single-use masks.
• To remove the mask: remove it from behind (do not touch the front of mask).
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Remember masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
Issued by;
Ms. Tilyenji Mwanza
Public Relations Manager
Ndola City Council
Stop this nonsense We have also seen in the past the sale of used panties, boxers and bras . Can the council also stop this please.
kuti wa powa
Oh no!! No wonder I cut them into pieces with scissors before disposal into a covered bin.
ch I see that you are a man that is of the simp brand. Like Frederic Chiluba, and a lot of American athletes. Have you never dated a beautiful woman? I feel sorry brother. What Ndola city council is saying though is timely. Great advice.
@ Fostina you said ” We have also seen in the past the sale of used panties, boxers and bras” Last time I checked Zambia is the dumping place for used cars , computers, toys, garments and many more….that we throw away in First world countries. We actually donate the garments for the poor Africans for free but someone got greedy and started selling them. Now the blankets and bedsheets used by deceased coronavirus patients in China is on the way to Africa to be soon sold as salaula.
Check out the shocking pictures of the toxic ‘electronic graveyards’ in Africa where the West dumps its old PCs, laptops, microwaves, fridges and phones
Harrowing images reveal one of west-Africa’s vast electronic graveyards where ‘millions of tonnes’ of discarded appliances from all over…
……. .the world are being dumped every year.
Thousands of broken televisions, computers, microwaves and refrigerators are being illegally exported to African countries and dumped gigantic landfills like Agbogbloshie in Ghana because it costs less than recycling them in their countries of origin.. reusing facemasks previously worn by fellow Zambian is not seen as as a bad thing as long as they use washa or boom..If people don’t catch covid-19 from used face masks they will catch if from the dirty Kwacha notes… hehehehehehehehe!!!
This is Chambia
Kale tilyenji. Always bwuetifil . I miss waking with you during the old dayz. I like that you also fight covid 19 there my old area. Here in lusaka we are doing fine and we should exchange some notes
Bowman, you are terrorizing people. Let’s find a realistic way to social distance. In the komboni the current framework is not applicable.
Sikufele go to Afghanistan if want see terrorism.
Bowman Chilosha Lusambo + a Wip = Discipline
George Bester+ A Kofi=Assault
#coronavirusquarantine
Discipline kubomfya Ubwembya
Assault Kubomfya Amakofi x
That is a wrong message ba Ndola, Burn the masks should be the advise. Tearing them might increase the chance of people just throwing them anyhow after tearing them apart. Emphasise on burning them so as to kill the virus as well.
Is it Lusambo forcing those women to wash masks?
This is unbelievable, who would want to be a president of these people?
It is better to wash the PF face masks than those Chinese trash.
I told you, who fuc k cares if masks are labeled UPND?
Thank PF for why you are all suffering and starving keep voting pf
My first words will be to thank God, for keeping our lives protected from the pandemic. Indeed, we sleep soundly knowing that it is not knocking at our doors like in other places.
No doubt though, the Government seems to have a plan that is working. Reassurance it is for us.
True that its about health, this pandemic. Zambians seem to now realize that. We see masks being used, which is again a mercy of the Good Lord. Masks apparently, we can now make at home too. Makes good sense because the way it appears, we will need to wear them for a while. So we might as well, make our own reusable masks.
Its a win win for us and for the health system too. We make our masks and reuse. We keep our family safe. They get to use the reusable ones which they need. Frontline workers, they are.Lets…