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Government assures health workers of priority in COVID-19 fight

May 1, 2020

By Tikondane Vega, MANA Minister of Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly, Clement Chiwaya says government will continue prioritising the welfare of health workers by ensuring that all are well trained and have Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) as the fight against COVID-19 intensifies. Chiwaya gave the assurance when he visited Thyolo District Hospital to see how the district is doing its work and to appreciate some of the preventive measures put in place. He said government values the work…

Agriculture expert tips cooking demonstrations as critical to improving nutrition status

April 29, 2020

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By Cosmas Chimaliro, MANA Agriculture extension development coordinator for Emusizini Extension Planning Area (EPA) in Mzimba, Martin Gondwe says cooking demonstrations help households to acquire knowledge in preparing diversified dietary meals. Gondwe made the remarks on Tuesday in Mzuzu when he presented a report to members of Mzimba North District Nutrition Coordinating Committee, saying using locally available food stuffs in cooking demonstrations, households can gain knowledge on how to prepare six food groups which can go a…

Government restructures Special Cabinet Committee on COVID-19

April 29, 2020

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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…

COVID-19: President Mutharika to introduce Emergency Cash Transfer Program to serve small scale businesses

April 29, 2020

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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…

Malawi ICT association partners with Facebook in ending fake news on COVID-19

April 28, 2020

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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…

Malawi Central Medical Stores Trust advertises to engage private legal services

April 26, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira In its budgeted financial resources towards the cost of implementing various programmes, Malawi’s Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) intends to apply part of the funds for payments under a contract for the provision of legal services by a reputable legal firm. An Invitation for Expression of Interest (EOI), from CMST’s chairperson of Internal Procurement and Disposal of Assets Committee, has been placed in the media targeting eligible and qualified consulting firms for the provision of the…

Post COVID-19 era: Revealing the zero-sum nature of development

April 26, 2020

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By Farai Chigaru Without exception, each one of us has only 24 hours a day. We spend each day in three different ways — productive; non-productive and counter-productive. An ideal mindset maximizes the productive hours, while minimizing the non-productive and counter-productive hours. As developed countries push the agenda to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, global demand for labor intensive products from labor abundant developing countries may decrease — leading to an inevitable zero-sum situation, with significant contraction of developing…

Africans advised not to eat insecticide infested swarming locusts

April 26, 2020

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Analysis by Joost Van Itterbeeck, allAfrica.com Massive swarms of locusts are sweeping across South Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. The current outbreak is the worst in recent decades and one million hectares of land is under threat in eight countries in the Horn of Africa. This is a crisis and a serious threat to crops, economies and livelihoods. New bands and swarms are currently forming so the crisis will continue for several more weeks. Locusts…

Parliamentary Committee on Health asks public to trust COVID-19 laboratory results

April 25, 2020

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By Blessings Kapina & Daniel Namwini, MANA Chairperson of Parliamentary Committee on Health, Dr. Matthews Ngwale has appealed to trust the concerted efforts by the Government and all stakeholders to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, that include the laboratory tests that are being done to determine if suspected patients have the virus or not. Ngwale, at a media briefing in Lilongwe on Friday, was reacting to isolated social media reports, which suggested that some of the confirmed…

Germany donates COVID-19 equipment to Dedza DHO; as World Vision Malawi assists Ntcheu

April 25, 2020

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By Sellah Singini & Maston Kaiya, MANA The German Ambassador to Malawi, Jurgen Borsch on Friday donated medical personal protective equipment (PPEs) and other supplies to Dedza District Health Office (DHO) to help the district in the fight against COVID-19. The items included hand sanitizers, N95 face masks for health workers and support staff, gloves, disposable aprons, pulse oximeters, liquid soap dispensers, surface disinfectant, hand washing liquid soap and tapped buckets. Borsch said the donation is one way of…