Steve Zimba
A 56-year-old widow based in Mtsiliza’s residential area in Lilongwe is amongst 199,640 households who are benefiting from K20.9 billion, the government of Malawi and its partners are implementing in the country's major cities.
Government says it will use more than Eight hundred and sixty sites to administer Covid-19 vaccine which Malawi is expected to receive this Friday through Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe.
Leadership of some Pentecostal Churches in Malawi have embarked on a fundraising campaign aimed at reducing problems hospitals accommodating covid-19 patients are facing.
As the Tonse administration ponders on the establishment of a Diplomatic Academy, governance expert Victor Chipofya has tipped capitol hill to just introduce a standalone diplomatic course at an already existing institution of higher learning than starting from scratch which he says is costly and time-consuming.
About seven hundred qualified but jobless Community Midwifery Assistants have requested President Lazarus Chakwera to hire them within five days or they will do unspecified action.
The Public Affairs Committee PAC has backed the Government on plans to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine and warned to reprimand in public all religious groups that will preach against the exercise.
A Lilongwe based; Mtsiliza Primary School that has over six thousand students says it is failing to enforce some covid-19 preventive measures like social distancing due to congestion.
The United Nations has asked Malawi to embrace key populations like gays and lesbians in an attempt of achieving zero reduction rate of new HIV infections in the country.
Advocates have in a report, punched holes in Malawi’s Constitution noting that there are no provisions that fully protects right of sexual minorities like Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender- LGBTs.
In a bid to contain another wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Malawi, Government has ordered that all indoor gatherings must be half the capacity.