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Lusaka Province Permanent Secretary Elias Kamanga is concerned that churches and funerals have continued to be super-spreaders of covid-19 and has called for restricting to such public gatherings.
Mr. Kamanga notes that the death of a number of the clergy is evidence that the disease is being spread in places of worship saying more needs to be done to ensure adherence to health guidelines.
Speaking during a virtual covid-19 multi-sectoral committee meeting yesterday, Mr. Kamanga noted that people have continued to gather in large numbers in churches and funerals.
“This is the case even when the deceased is reported to have died from covid 19, people will be at funerals in large numbers disregarding the health guidelines,” he said.
The Ministry of Health has come up with a new antigen test for Covid 19 that detects results within 30 minutes.
Lusaka Province Health Director Consity Mwale noted that the new Covid 19 antigen test is done through nose swabbing and the specimen is not sent to the laboratory like before.
Dr Mwale said the staff instead are able to mix the specimen immediately and advise the client whether they are negative or positive.
Dr Mwale added that the new Covid 19 anti-gene test is a game changer that quickly helps in stopping local transmission that happens when transferring the specimen to the laboratory.