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NICO Group continues to assist in COVID-19 fight: Donates PPEs to UNIMA

August 31, 2020

By Duncan Mlanjira Just after over two weeks when they responded to a call for help from College of Medicine in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, NICO Group — through NICO Life and NICO Pensions — have donated personal protective equipment (PPEs), worth K6m to University of Malawi (UNIMA) as the constituent colleges prepare for resumption of physical academic classes. Learning institutions that were closed some six months ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are set to be reopened…

Of the cumulative 174 COVID-19 related deaths, 134 are men while 40 are women

August 30, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira In his Sunday’s situation report, co-chairperson of the presidential taskforce on COVID-19, Dr John Phuka has said of the cumulative 174 COVID-19 related deaths, 134 are men (at 69%) while 40 are women. The report says on Sunday, there were no new death as Malawi registered eight new cases of which four are new recoveries. Six of the new cases are locally transmitted and two are imported infections identified among deportees from South Africa heading for Nsanje and Thyolo….

Learning institutions to reopen September 7

August 28, 2020

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By Sylvester Kumwenda, MANA The Ministry of Education, Science & Technology has announced that following the various strides the country has made in the fight against COVID-19, learning institutions will reopen from September 7, in phases starting with examination classes. Government ordered closure of all learning institutions in Malawi in March even before the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in the country, as a preventive measure to the emergence and subsequent spread of the pandemic. Addressing the…

Alert on reopening of schools: US study reveals children are silent spreaders of COVID-19

August 23, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira As many countries across the world are contemplating on reopening of learning institutions that were closed as one of the preventive measures against the spread of Coronavirus, a new study done in the USA has provided a critical data that children play a large role in community spread of COVID-19. A report by www.europahealth.eu says a comprehensive paediatric study carried out by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) shows higher…

White Ribbon Alliance calls Parliament to push for increased family planning budget

August 20, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira As Parliament is expected to meet from September 4 for budget session, White Ribbon Alliance has appealed for more funding towards the family planning sector in the country after noting that there was poor funding for in the initial 2020/21 national budget. In an exclusive interview from Lilongwe Executive Director, Hester Mkwinda Nyasulu said White Ribbon Alliance — that was initiated in 2002 with a mission to activate a people-led movement for health and reproductive sensitisation…

Dr. Phuka asks asymptomatic patients not to demand re-testing in order to be discharged

August 20, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira As the country awaits the arrival of 20,000 testing kits in early September, which have been donated by the Government of China, co-chairperson of Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, Dr. John Phuka has said there is need to rationalize the use of the limited number of test kits stock currently in stock. In his situation report on Wednesday, Dr. Phuka following the limited number of test kits, testing is currently only been done on those that are…

Men prone to COVID-19 deaths due to their unhealthy behaviors

August 20, 2020

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By Tione Andsen, MANA UN Women has expressed concern that a lot more men seems to have died in the country from COVID-19, perhaps because of their unhealthy behaviors. UN Women Country Representative in Malawi, Clara Anyangwe made the remarks Wednesday during the Ministerial Stakeholders Stock Taking meeting on implementation of gender-related interventions in the context of COVID-19. The meeting, at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe, also touched on gender-based violence (GBV), women economic empowerment, decision making,…

Malawi Relief Fund UK swiftly responds to SOS call of food relief for Queens patients

August 20, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira There was ESCOM power failure on Wednesday at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and the gensets also failed creating a crisis whereby the kitchen could not provide evening food for patients in the wards. Upon being informed of the crisis, Malawi Relief Fund (MRF) UK responded swiftly and funds were mobilized to buy relief food packs that were delivered by 19:30 hours at the paedriatic wards. The food items by MRF UK included 500 packs of readily…

Dr. Phuka urges people to eat healthy foods to prevent, fight and recover from COVID-19 infections

August 19, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Co-chairperson of Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, Dr. John Phuka is urging the public to eat healthy foods to prevent, fight and recover from COVID-19 infections. Dr. Phuka said this in his situation report in which he reported of 68 new COVID-19 cases that were registered on Tuesday, 26 of which are new recoveries and one new death that occurred in Mzimba North. “As we continue the fight against COVID-19, I would like to emphasise of the importance…

COVID-19: NICO donates K6m for needy College of Medicine undergraduate students

August 18, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira NICO Group, through NICO Life and Nico Pensions, has added more support towards government’s calls to corporates to assist in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by donating K6 million College of Medicine (COM) to acquire lap tops for its 30 needy undergraduate students who are unable to access lessons in the wake of the tertiary institution being closed. This follows calls by the college for assistance and NICO says the donation is in line with…