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By Duncan Mlanjira In his public address on Tuesday evening, President Peter Mutharika declared that the Special Cabinet Committee on COVID-19, which was set up on March 7, 2020, will from now on be called the Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus.  And this Taskforce will be co-chaired by a Cabinet Minister and a Professor in Public Health and will directly report to the President. The President announced that the complete membership of the Taskforce will soon be announced by the…

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By Duncan Mlanjira As a strategy towards considering executing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) national lockdown, President Peter Mutharika is proceeding with new measures and that include introducing an Emergency Cash Transfer Program to serve small scale businesses in and around major markets in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu, Zomba and others.  In the address to the nation on Tuesday as an update on the fight against COVID-19 , President Mutharika “this is an extended cash transfer facility to support Malawians who depend…

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By Glory Msowoya, MANA  Information and Communication Technologies Association of Malawi (ICTAM) has partnered with Facebook in creating an information centre on Coronavirus (COVID-19) to curb fake news and misinformation. ICTAM president, Bram Fudzulani told Malawi News Agency (Mana) on Tuesday that the information centre would help Facebook users in getting all the right information and timely updates on COVID-19 from trusted sources.  He said the partnership with Facebook on COVID-19 Information Centre comes after noticing some fake social…

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