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Patel Samaj of Malawi donates essential PPEs to Blantyre City Council’s burial team
February 12, 2021
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Dilip Kadiwar (left) and Kaushik Patel donate the PPEs to Kanjunjunju * Patel Samaj is a grouping of the Patel lineage community originally from Gujarat state of India By Duncan Mlanjira While emphasis on the fight against COVID-19 pandemic is on providing medical equipment for treatment units, Patel Samaj of Malawi has come in with a difference by donating essential personal protective equipment (PPEs) to Blantyre City Council’s burial team. Patel Samaj is a grouping of the Patel lineage community…

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Illovo Sugar applauded as a caring corporate partner for Chikwawa
February 11, 2021
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* As the company presents K40m worth COVID-19 supplies * Illovo Sugar always supports other emergencies that affect the district * “Our healthcare workers will be better equipped to handle serious cases * Fake news affecting people’s late response for COVID-19 treatment * Communities encouraged to ignore fake news that portray negative picture of healthcare workers By Duncan Mlanjira Illovo Sugar Malawi Plc has been applauded as a caring corporate partner for Chikwawa when the company presented K40 million…

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Balaka COVID-19 Citizen Response set to present medical supplies to District Health Office
February 9, 2021
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* First donation is worth MK1.6m * Items procured in liaison with DHO By Duncan Mlanjira Citizens with origins from Balaka, who initiated a fundraising campaign last January to procure COVID-19 medical supplies for District Health Office (DHO), are set to present the items on Wednesday. In conjunction with various wellwishers, the Balaka COVID-19 Citizen Response bought the first batch of equipment worth K1.644 million. The list of items purchased include 12 purse oximeters at K174,000; 2 infra thermos…

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155 new COVID-19 recoveries, 14 discharged from treatment units
February 8, 2021
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* 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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Inside Malawi’s COVID-19 wards, the impact of vaccine nationalism is all too clear
February 8, 2021
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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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Various stakeholders contribute close to K2.2bln in joining fight for the second wave of COVID-19
February 8, 2021
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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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35 new COVID-19 related deaths, 546 new cases, 296 new recoveries in past 24 hours
February 5, 2021
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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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Illovo Sugar Malawi presents 21 hospital beds, 3 patient monitors and 10 nebulisers for Queens Hospital COVID-19 treatment units
February 3, 2021
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Katandula (right) presenting the donation * A fulfillment of the pledge it made last week to assist various COVID-19 treatment units * It injected K100 million of which K20 million has gone to Queens * The other for Nkhotakota and Chikwawa-Kasinthula isolation centres By Duncan Mlanjira As Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital continues to grapple with increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients on a daily basis — coupled with efforts to increase treatment units — Illovo Sugar Plc Malawi has donated…

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FIFA, WHO #ACTogether to tackle COVID-19 during FIFA Club World Cup 2020
February 1, 2021
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Gianni Infantino World Health Organisation World football governing body, FIFA is teaming up with the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote the need for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics, and to encourage people to keep practicing life-saving, everyday public health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to protect health. In conjunction with the FIFA Club World Cup 2020, to be held in Qatar from February 4 to 11, 2021,…

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Encouraging COVID-19 recoveries despite rising new cases and related deaths
February 1, 2021
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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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