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Three more food outlets shut in Lusaka as 100 fresh cases are recorded in 24 Hours

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MINISTER of Health Hon Dr Chitalu Chilufya
MINISTER of Health Hon Dr Chitalu Chilufya

Three more outlets have been closed in Lusaka after samples from their premises tested positive for the Cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholera.

These include a restaurant and bakery in Matero and the Pick ‘n’ Pay Woodlands bakery section.

Others are Deboniars Levy, Pizza Hut, Mika Hotel and some parts of Bauleni compound.

This is according to a statement issued by Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya Friday morning.

One hundred more cases of Cholera have been recorded in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale has disclosed that no vendors will be allowed back on the streets after the containment of the Cholera outbreak .

Mr. Mwale said traders and vendors will be allocated trading space in two designated sites that will have an estimated 22,000 trading spaces.

He was speaking Friday morning when he featured on Let the People Talk program on Radio Phoenix.

And all sporting activities have been suspended in the wake of the Cholera outbreak.

This is according to Minister of Youth and Sport Moses Mawere.

Mr. Mawere said this in a statement issued today citing fears that such gatherings maybe an opportunity for the spread of Cholera.

28 COMMENTS

  1. Declare state of emergency!! People will be wiped out!!

    Surely can you check LWSC… examine the water, cause now this ain’t making sense people!

    Mwalapwa!

    • BUTI ba Government zoona, it had to take cholera keep coming back tamuleumfwa – now that it has increased pressure that is when you are seeing sense the public has always seen.

      Yangu tata

    • Declaring state of emergency = declaring a failed state.

      This is how hungry to stay in power PF minions are,
      even in the face of failure so deep that kills scores of it’s citizens.

      They came into power by allowing unregulated street vending,
      they shall leave by the same door, sorry toilet.

    • @ Logit Regression closing piece meal is just stalling the inevitable…… let the whole country be closed till the cholera epidemic is cleansed and only reopen when a sustainable plan for its containment is in place approved by health authorities and maybe assessed by the World Health Organization. I shudder to think that populations and indeed a whole community can go into extinction! Let people be quarantined in their homes as free movements is causing the spread of the disease. Of course there are repercussions on the economy but what use will good economy be to a country whose population has been wiped out?

    • While Pick ‘n’ Pay Woodlands was said to have been contaminated, it was not closed, it was business as usual, they weren’t even issued with any form of sanction whatsoever. So this whole exercise is turning into a sham.

    • What’s surprising with this PF government is that whenever they have state functions, they hire mobile toilets at great cost, but they fail to provide sufficient toilet facilities in the CBD, or in the high density areas. The cost of one Fire tender who have gone a long in providing decent toilet facilities.

    • This 3mansion is behind the biolgical weapon to reduce votes in other areas. how come his province which is near lsk has no cases

    • the government should close all local councils offices throughout the country, they have the most poorest sanitanitation and health harzads this nation has never seen. some have no proper toilets and those that ve, there is no water in the toilets. council offices are the most filthiest cholera prone environments on earth.

  2. Cholera started in August 2017 and GRZ did not want to take serious action, it is like they were waiting for the situation to get bad so that some individual can make more money out of it.

    This is a purely PF made disaster! Deaths would have been 100% avoided if we had serious leader.

  3. We can blame GRZ for neglecting its duties,but blame equally goes to filthy Zambians .The way some folks handle and serve food at public eateries always leaves me aghast at their very poor hygeine.

  4. Ba Dr Chitalu Chilufya
    a busy bodie full of talks busy supervising health infrastructure projects. he can’t just sit in the office and work on some of these perennial problems.
    Iwe Chilufya just resign you have failed your president. President Lungu drop the chap what are you waiting for?
    This cholera seem to be not the usual strain, it may contain some ebola strains which is dangerous and can wipe out the whole Lusaka.
    This is health disaster, more disastrous cholera than ever before in the history of cholera in Zambia. ati Dr Chitalu Chilufya for PF presidency… what a joke!

  5. Now there is this epidemic you can even walk in these outlets and conduct inspection tests ….where are all these people when there is no disease….one simply needs to stand behind the counter and observe staff and you will see Health Safety Regulation breaches. Reactive govt if only hefty penalty fines were slapped on these outlets.

    • Jay Jay Zambia is a place where public officials are simply in office for the money .Being effective & proactive is alien culture to them.

    • jay jay … most of these food outlets employ filth cheap labour from shant compounds who ve no clue about hygienic standards.

  6. Comment: Dont blame an individual for cholera outbreak it is collective responsibility caused by poor hygiene by most zambians and plz dont politicize the outbreak.

  7. Why does minister mwale keep say no traders back on ghe strret after containment od cholera but will be in two designated ares of 22000 stalls, the other day he said that the 3 storey building will house those traders, where are th e designated areas. Whzt is this 3 storey building, is it built where is it. The good doctor should know this, DEBONAIRS PIZZA HUT are franchises, so alll the ingredients come from a central store already prepared and distributed to outlets thru zambia, has the good doctor checked the central preparation area otherwise u can spread it throughout zambia. A check like that doctor would be the first action you take

  8. Major sources of cholera are bad sanitation and poor water treatment. For as long as these sources are not contained, it is futile to simply continue closing outlets and institutions – unless you close them for good. If the sources are not dealt with, the contamination while resurface once the food outlets are reopened. Remember, they use water and need a clean environment that includes cleaned toilets and proper garbage disposal points. I have yet to read about any water source tests and results – or the habits of those who have been infected, prior to infection. Where they have been, in which areas and what they did. That is how you narrow where the origins are and how to stem them.

  9. One funny thing I have noticed is our town is cleaned but our residential areasare in a total mess I don’t if its the council department that were dumping those gabbege containers or who they have been left for year and without been collected and I don’t know who they are waiting to go in the compounds and collect those things?its like cleaning a sitting/leaving room and leave the bedroom dirty because no one sleeps in town

    • Let the dmu send some folk lifters and remove those gabbeges especially in bauleni,kanyama, Kamanga ,chipata I can mention a lot of them but that’s not my duty to inspect compounds they are pipo paid for that let them inspect these places and give a report to dmmu

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