Category: Health

* 11,756 cases have now recovered, 14,582 are active cases * 227 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours * Blantyre having highest at 88 followed by Lilongwe at 73 * There were 18 new related deaths — six from Blantyre, five from Lilongwe By Duncan Mlanjira The country has registered 155 new COVID-19 recoveries in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative number to 11,756 cases with 14,582 as active cases. Of those recovered are 14, who have been…

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Vaccine needed first for healthcare workers * Where shifts are measured in days not hours * Queen’s hospital seemed to be spared the worst during the first wave of COVID-19 *Vaccines needed now * A special report by CNN’s David McKenzie & Brent Swails Even before Andrew Simbota arrived at the small, rural Mulanje district hospital on Saturday afternoon, doctors here wondered how they would treat him. They were down to two oxygen tanks for their entire COVID-19 ward….

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Chakwera: Those to be found to have abused their funds will be punished * As President Chakwera calls on controlling officers in various ministries to account for K6.2bln that Treasury disbursed * Summons to meet presidential taskforce in 48 hours to account how the money was used * Warns to punish any cluster that either fails to account for the money it received * First consignment of AstraZeneca vaccine expected by month end By Duncan Mlanjira President Lazarus Chakwera disclosed on Sunday that the…

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* 59 cases were admitted, 26 were discharged from various treatment centers * Currently, a total of 260 active cases are admitted: 78 in Lilongwe, 76 in Blantyre as highest * The positive cases out of the total translates to a positivity rate of 20.1%. * “In other unfortunate circumstances, some patients are brought in dead to treatment units * “Chances of one recovering from COVID-19 increases when the disease is identified as early as possible” * “Hence the need…

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* 297 recoveries on Sunday, 503 on Saturday, 267 Friday, 289 Thursday * Cumulatively, 8,945 cases have now recovered * Of the active cases 230 are admitted with Blantyre as highest at 69 followed by Lilongwe at 52 * Positive cases out of the total translates to a positivity rate of 26.9% * Mass gatherings are acting as super spreaders of the disease By Duncan Mlanjira In the past two weeks, there have been encouraging rise of COVID-19 recoveries…

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* 23 new related deaths, 477 new cases * All new cases local transmissions, Blantyre highest at 180 * Total of 315 active cases admitted, Blantyre highest at 102 * 41 cases were admitted in hospitals, 33 discharged By Duncan Mlanjira In the past 24 hours of Saturday, Malawi recorded a record high 503 new COVID-19 recoveries though the number of new cases keep rising as there were 477 new cases with 23 as new related deaths from 2,226…

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