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Minister of Health, Jonas Chanda says the country has continued to record reduced numbers of COVID-19 admission cases.

Dr Chanda said the cases are improving from statistical highs of 510 cases per day at the peak of the second wave of the pandemic in January 2021 to as low as 183 cases today.

He however, said majority of those admitted are critically ill, and emphasized that this is a reflection of the circumstances in communities and the need to keep observing COVID-19 preventive measures.

“COVID-19 situation update for the last 24 hours is as follows: We recorded 234 new cases out of 3,090 tests conducted. The new cases reported by province are broken down as follows: 120 Lusaka, 44 Copperbelt, 33 Luapula, 23 Eastern, 6 Northern, 6 Southern and 2 North-western. There were no cases reported from Central, Muchinga and Western provinces. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases recorded to 82, 655,” he said.

Dr Chanda said the country has recorded eight deaths with Lusaka having the highest number of three and other affected areas are North- Western, Copperbelt and Muchinga Provinces.

“We recorded a combined total of 778 recoveries from both the COVID-19 isolation facilities and home management, bringing the cumulative number of recoveries to 78,721 (95 percent). We currently have 2,802 active cases, of whom 2,619 (93percent) are under community management and 183 (7 percent) are admitted to our COVID-19 isolation facilities,” he said.

He said among those admitted, 129 are on Oxygen therapy and 29 are in critical condition.

Dr Chanda said the ministry continues to conduct training for health workers in order to strengthen case management capacity.

“In our bid to strengthen disease burdens including maternal and neonatal death. We are seeking innovative ways and means of ensuring that our High Dependency Units (HDU) benefit beyond the newly infrastructure development from the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA), equipment and tools to support patient care,” he said.

Meanwhile, Dr Chanda said schools and higher learning institutions play an important role in supporting communities in observing COVID-19 precautions in order to avoid disruptions to the educational calendar.

He said school surveillance and monitoring is ongoing to ensure that learning institutions remain a safe environment for learners and teachers.

“This week, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with our counterparts from the Ministry of Education will be disseminating the consolidated guidelines for schools, which provide among others a monitoring checklist, to ensure that our schools have a standardized and systematic structure in place with regard to monitoring and adherence to public health guidance,” explained Dr Chanda.

This is contained in a statement availed to ZANIS in Lusaka today by Dr Chanda.

7 COMMENTS

  1. This is where we need my bro lusambo. Those whlps helped to reduce non compliance with covid rules. Some thugs only understand pain. Meanwhile:

    Thoughts and good wishes to harry and Meghan. If racism can be shown to their mixed race child based on darkness of his skin, what more these Sudan black upnd diasporans. You guys must be suffering there abroad. Why suffer like that. Just return home. Oh I forgot you gave up your zambian passports. Chimbwi . At least harry and Meghan can move to amerixa. You upnd diasporans are stuck there

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  2. KAIZER ZULU DONT TALK NONSENSE YOU ARE NOTHING WITHOUT A POLITICAL PARTY
    INSTEAD OF SELF PRAISE WHY DONT YOU ANSWER QUESTIONS BY OTHERS HOW THE BICYCLES AND OTHER GIFTS CAME IN VIA NAKONDE AND DUTY FREE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    LEAVE HARRY AND MEGHAN ALONE THEY FINE LIKE ANDREW I SUPPOSE YOU GOING TO TELL US HARRY HAS TAUGHT YOU SO MUCH
    YOU HAVE STRAVING PIPO HERE >>>>>>>>>> THEY CRYING HELP AND YOU GIVING BICYCLES ?????????????????????

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  4. “Minister of Health, Jonas Chanda says the country has continued to record reduced numbers of COVID-19 admission cases.”

    Here we go again with making statements without giving reasons why cases are reducing …these people just cook figures to suit themselves after they watch CNN and BBC News. He has never said anything about vaccines which were donated from AU.

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  5. EXCUSE THE COPY PASTE BUT IT IS SO RELEVANT
    The most classic adage regarding trolling is, “Don’t feed the trolls.” Trolls seek out emotional responses and find provocation amusing, so replying to them or attempting to debate them will only make them troll more. By ignoring a troll completely, they will likely become frustrated and go somewhere else on the internet.

    You should try your best not to take anything trolls say seriously. No matter how poorly they behave, remember these people spend countless unproductive hours trying to make people mad. They’re not worth your time of day.

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