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Alliance One donates K21 million worth of PPEs to PHIM

The Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM) says continuous availability of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for medical facilities plays a crucial role when conducting laboratory tests of different diseases including the corona virus that causes Covid-19. PHIM’s Head of National HIV Reference Laboratory Dr. Bernard Mvula made the remarks when he was receiving a donation of various personal protective items worth over K21 million from Alliance One Tobacco Malawi. Officals from Alliance One and PHIM pose with some of the donated items The donated items include 1000 cartons of disposable surgical face masks, 1000 cartons of disposable gowns, 800 cartons of disposable gloves, 500 five-litre bottles of hand sanitizers as well as 500 goggles among others.

CoVID-19 pandemic in Malawi; 38 0% decrease in cases in past week

During the last weekly reporting period, there was a 38.0% decrease in the number of new CoVID-19 cases compared to Epi-week 15 since January with Blantyre reporting at least half of the cases followed by Lilongwe which reported 13 cases. In its Sunday, April 25 Epi-week 16 report, Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), […]

Malawi to bin 16,000 AstraZeneca doses amid fears of rise in vaccine hesitancy

Malawi to bin 16,000 AstraZeneca doses amid fears of rise in vaccine hesitancy Charles Pensulo in Lilongwe © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Thoko Chikondi/AP More than 16,000 expired AstraZeneca Covid-19 doses are to be destroyed in Malawi as concerns over vaccine hesitancy increase. The vaccines are among 102,000 doses donated by the African Union (AU) to the Malawian government last month. Health campaigners are concerned that the possible link with rare cases of blood clots and rumours that people were being given out-of-date doses of the vaccine were putting people off coming forward. Currently, about 230,000 doses have been administered, enough to vaccinate nearly 1% of the population. As well as doses from the AU, the country received more than 400,000 AstraZeneca shots from Covax and the Indian government.

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