Health Minister Dr Jonas Chanda
Minister of Health Dr Jonas Chanda has announced that this year’s Women’s day and Youth Day celebrations will be held virtually in order to avoid large gatherings which could lead to a super spread of COVID-19.
In a statement, Dr Chanda also announced that Zambia recorded 410 new COVID-19 cases out of 4,718 tests done in the last 24 hours.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the COVID-19 situation update for the last 24 hours is as follows: We recorded 410 new cases out of 4,718 tests conducted (9 percent positivity). Of these positive samples, 274 were collected in the last 24-72 hours while 136 were older than 72 hours. The new cases reported by province are broken down as follows: 105 Copperbelt, 88 North-western, 76 Lusaka, 45 Eastern, 29 Luapula, 26 Central, 21 Southern, I I Northern, and 9 Muchinga. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases recorded to date to 82,421,” he stated.