Category: National

By Dyson Kamwana, MANA Germany Ambassador to Malawi, Juergen Borsch has said the country needs to intensify awareness campaigns on COVID-19, especially targeting people living in rural areas. He said people in the rural communities lack access to clear and effective information on issues in public discussion. The remarks were made Tuesday when the Germany International Cooperation (GIZ) donated sanitary materials like buckets, hand washing soap and face masks as well as lessons on precautionary measures meant help curb…

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By Duncan Mlanjira  Since its formation on March 26, just after President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika declared a State of Disaster on March 20 in view of the Coronavirus pandemic, Asian Business Community (ABC) COVID-19 Task Force has spent over K600 million towards assisting the government’s preventive response measures. This was disclosed on Monday by the ABC COVID-19 Task Force  chairperson Faizal Aboo at a press briefing at Hotel Victoria in Blantyre where the committee outlined some of the…

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By Duncan Mlanjira In joining the fight against Coronavirus, NICO Group of companies on Monday donated 20 hospital beds, 20 mattresses, 20 oxygen units and 20 bedside trolleys worth K22 million to boost the services that is being provided at Kameza COVID-19 isolation centre in Blantyre. Eight of the beds are intensive care unit (ICU) hydraulic adjustable to cater for very serious cases. So far, Blantyre registered 16 cases, of which one died, five recovered and the other 10…

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By Maston Kaiya, MANA Campaign for Health, Education, Sanitation and Hygiene (CAHESH) has donated COVID-19 Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials that are in Braille for visually impaired people in Ntcheu District on Friday. The donation included 120 braille and large print books, 60 hand washing buckets with taps, 10 cartons of soap and 200 leaflets amounting to K1.2 million. CAHESH Executive Director, MacDonald Kaluwa said his organisation observed that the visually impaired were not accommodated during Coronavirus message…

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