Special Advisor to the President on COVID-19, Roma Chilengi has aid that the severity of the Coronavirus has the potential to wipe out a population if preventive measures such as vaccination exercises are not undertaken.
Speaking during a media engagement meeting in Chinsali district – Muchinga Province today, Professor Chilengi said there is need to improve the COVID-19 vaccination drive through thorough sensitization of the masses.
He has since called for intensified approach towards the fight against COVID-19 amid the emergence of the fourth wave to avoid measures such as lockdowns that have a negative effect on the economy.
Professor Chilengi however said the government has no plans to put the country on lockdown amid the fourth wave.
He also implored the media to play a leading role in discouraging the myths and misconceptions on COVID-19 through their various platforms.
And, Muchinga Province Deputy Permanent Secretary, Jonathan Ng’onga urged the media to uphold utmost professionalism while reporting on COVID-19 as they are important frontline workers in the vaccination drive.
Mr. Ng’onga further called on all Journalists to take the step by getting vaccinated as frontline workers.
Meanwhile, Muchinga Province Health Director Nero Chilembo said the interventions to improve the vaccination drive in the province are recording good results so far.
Dr. Chilembo said the positive outcome in the increase of the vaccination exercise is attributed to the collaborative efforts by various stakeholders such as the media.
The Ministry of Health in Muchinga province targets to vaccinate about 30 percent of people before the end of this year.
Meanwhile, Chief Mubanga of the Bemba people of Chinsali in Muchinga Province has urged fellow traditional leaders to support Government’s efforts to accelerate the COVID-19 vaccination drive.
Chief Mubanga said that traditional leaders are important stakeholders in the fight against the pandemic in their various chiefdoms.
Speaking during a media engagement meeting on COVID-19 in Chinsali District today, Chief Mubanga said traditional leaders in various chiefdoms should encourage their people to get vaccinated to reduce on the number of infections in the country.
He said it is disheartening that Muchinga Province has since last year lost 5 traditional leaders due to the disease.
Chief Mubanga said from the chiefs that Muchinga has lost due to COVID 19 in the recent past, two of them are his own blood brothers saying he personally feels the impact and effect that the disease has on humanity.
The Chief further stated that the strategy by the Ministry of Health in the province to increase on their outreach vaccination programmes is a welcome move.
And Chinsali Mayor Lucy Mukuka said the local authority is also working on a strategy to encourage the business community to get vaccinated.
Is hh so dull and inexperienced that he needs an advisor for everything? Next he will employ an advisor for covering up lies. Useless marmbala!
Zambians were willing to get vaccinated under pf govt because they trusted us. Now they know that hh is a stooge for the west and the people are scared he might be working with his masters to inject evil blood in his own people. God forbid!
PF DIDNT CARE A DAMN ABOUT COVID
EVEN LUNGU NEVER ANNOUNCED HIS STATUS
SO PF TAUGHT NOT TO FOLLOW OUR LEADER
African leadership, followers of the West no thinking for themselves. A vaccinated person can still get Covid, can still transmit Covid and can still get sick from Covid just like an unvaccinated person. The vaccine antibodies last less than 3 months and then you need another they call booster to get another three months potency. Are we guinea pigs? So why toe the western line to insist on an injection with moving goal posts. This vaccine drive is Satanic and doesn’t make sense. Stop scaring people.
Tikki status is a personal thing. You have right to privacy.
This advisor watches too much BBC news…
This Kaizar Zulu is saying sweet nothings. He is actually and indirectly telling people not to get vaccinated by suggesting that there is a vaccine that he refers to as “evil blood”
Covid-19 is nowhere near as serious as for example the Spanish flu of roughly one hundred years ago and the plague of the medieval era which was worsened by the absence of scientific knowledge.
I think some prominent people need to die before this disease can be taken seriously.
KZ no matter what you say, we hate you and your PF. even yourself you know that you are a very bad person. best you just keep quite.
Chester go play a banjo and stfu
This guy is a joke the major problem for African people is not covid 19 , but HIV and malaria these two are the dangers Africa faces.
Better to concentrate on these two than corona virus, which is more of a problem for European countries , as of now Africa has more pressing problems to contend with than repeating the same song that is not so in the continent
Dear fellow panelists, let’s leave politics out this. You can differ on other matters, but with disease please don’t.
The problem is the exaggeration behind this whole thing. Always listening from the West for the sake of funding wrong organizations.
As Africans, why can’t we do our own staff. Oh! poverty.
This guy is just a share waste of time. Surely, does the Presido needs an advisor on this problem than the PS of the ministry? Any way he helped to campaign for me.