February 8, 2021 Chipambano Mbewe – Nyasa Times 3 Comments
Some local disability organisations in Malawi have pleaded for inclusivity of the persons with disabilities in the newly National Preparedness and Response Strategic Plan which is currently being drafted by The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19.
VIHEMA officials and stakeholders
The organisations which are under the Federation of Disability Organisations in Malawi (FEDOMA) and others registered by the Non Governmental Organisations made the remarks on Friday, February 5 2021 during a virtual (Zoom) meeting organised by the Visual Hearing Impairment Association (VIHEMA) which advocates for people with deaf and blind disabilities with the fund from Disability Rights Fund.
Government is reviewing whether to proceed with the planned rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a research showed it offered minimal protection against mild infection from a new variant spreading in the country from South Africa blamed for the surge in cases. South Africa announced on Monday its pause after researchers from the University of Witwatersrand […]
February 5, 2021 Watipaso Mzungu - Nyasa Times 10 Comments
The Minister of Information and Communication Technologies, Gospel Kazako, has commended Malawians for up and seek clarification from duty-bearers on the Covid-19 vaccine developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca in partnership with Oxford University.
Ministers of Infomation Gospel Kazako (L): Every citizen has the right to know what sort of vaccine is being injected into their bodies. -Pic (C) Daniel Namwini-Mana
President Lazarus Chakwera, in his weekly Covid-19 update on January 31, said government had secured doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to give as many citizens as possible immunity against Covid-19.
Chakwera said the vaccines will be administered on 20 percent of the country’s total population.
BLANTYRE, Malawi
Malawi faces a resurgence of COVID-19 that is overwhelming the southern African country where a presidential residence and a national stadium have been turned into field hospitals in efforts to save lives.
President Lazarus Chakwera, just six months in office, lost two Cabinet ministers to COVID-19 in January amid a surge that led him to declare a state of national disaster in all of Malawi’s 28 districts.
Chakwera declared three days of national mourning over the deaths of the ministers of transport and local government, which shocked the nation and inspired a raft of new measures aimed at stemming the spread of the virus in a country with a poor health system. A more contagious strain of the coronavirus first reported in South Africa has since been confirmed in Malawi.