Zambia has recorded 3 more COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya has said.
Speaking at the latest COVID-19 update, Dr. Chilufya announced that the first case involves a 58-year-old man of Makeni who is a contact to a confirmed case that traveled from Pakistan in March 2020.
He said the second case is his 13-year-old daughter while the third case involves a 41-year-old female who is a primary contact to the deceased Kafue patient.
He said all new cases have been put in isolation at Levi Mwanawasa hospital and being carefully monitored
“Stay home but if you are working and you are taking essential travel please adhere to the prescribed guidelines” Dr. Chilufya pleaded as he announced that Kafue is a hot spot following the death of the second COVID-19 Kafue resident.
Dr. Chilufya, therefore, said cumulatively the country has recorded a total of 43 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths, 30 recoveries with 11 active cases of which 2 are admitted on the Copperbelt and the rest in Lusaka.
He further said 608 alerts of which 3 tested positive in the last 24 hours were detected adding that 2,192 individuals have completed the 14-day mandatory quarantine and have been released.
He said in the last 24 hours 106 tests were conducted and bring the number of all the tests done to 1,528.
Dr. Chilufya warned all those abrogating the rules against the fight that they risk putting the entire country at risk as he noted with concern the continued disregard for social distancing rules.
“Let’s all be responsible if we are to win this fight, let’s ensure we follow all the guidelines the President gave in his national address and we will control the pandemic with lesser disturbances on our socioeconomic sectors,” he said.
He urged everyone to support President Edgar Lungu’s transformative agenda in the health sectors to promote universal health coverage even as the country fights the pandemic and emphasized that all public gatherings such as graduations ceremonies, sporting events, weddings among others are not allowed.
New cases…no new cases…Chitalu chilufya continue lying to the people of Zambia….Lungu is telling you to lie because he thinks this will guarantee him another 3rd term in office
It is sad that many Zambians still think that Covid 19 is a disease for whites. Currently, statistics in America and UK are showing that Blacks though in the minority, are the worst affected.
We are not doing much in Zambia to prevent further spread of the Corona virus.
The most pathetic areas from my own assessment:
1. Wholesales for groceries mostly run by people of ASIAN origin.
2. Mini buses especially HIACES.
3. Market places especially Soweto Market.
4. And also funeral gatherings.
We better act now before it is too late. Let Police and the Council act not only when accompanied by Hon Bowman Lusambo. The situation in Zambia is not yet bad bad if we relax, we shall regret very soon.
Without even doing proper tests they were declaring Victory….bandit government…
It is sad that many Zambians still think that Covid 19 is a disease for whites. Currently, statistics in America and UK are showing that Blacks though in the minority are the worst affected.
We are not doing much in Zambia to prevent further spread of the Corona virus.
The most pathetic areas from my own assessment:
1. Wholesales for groceries mostly run by people of ASIAN origin.
2. Mini buses especially HIACES.
3. Market places especially Soweto Market.
4. And also Funeral Gatherings
We better act now before it is too late. Let Police and the Council act not only when accompanied by Hon Bowman Lusambo. Let us ack now.
We thank you for keeping us updated . We thank the medical fraternity for the excellent fight they are putting up against this virus. You guys are keeping us safe and we owe it to you. Please people do your part by following guidance. Happy Easter and God bless Zambia
Chilufya tell us how many tests you are carrying out per day? Not your lies
Are you a normal individual? Which country has ever tested all its inhabitants in a single day? Learn to give support to what the medical personnel are doing for once. It is not an easy task because they are sacrificing a lot even their lives. They also need freedom like one you are enjoying. It is not Chitalu Chilufya doing it he is only a conveyor of the message.
The latest cases are so scary. The spread of Covid will soon be uncontrollable if we are not proactive. Social Distancing should be reinforced. Markets, Wholesales for Groceries etc should be given proper guidance.
I told you that this PF government is not trustworthy, it’s 3 days when I said that after there more cases than what you being told. The fact is that they ran out of testing kits. Chilufya lies
Chilufya looks more presidential than ECL right now.
PF should relook at him. Could be a better option.
We still have a long way to go…..
When others are taking it so lightly. Sneaking in lounges and bars when we have been asked to stay home just because one wants to consume alchol.
Like the Pakistan group that went to Pakistan for a wedding only to come back with imported convid. As that is not enough their relatives hold a wedding in Emasdale without adhering to instructions and when police officers stop them interestingly the same people their protecting start complaining circulating on social media ati ubututu.
Well if people don’t take the presidents directives seriously let then let them be beaten that’s when they will understand.
Developed nations with all their resources are have been hit terribly and here in Zambia just because of alchol and freedom we should just watch.
Thank you for all your efforts to keep us informed. It is not easy to keep track of this virus nor to monitor the chain of infection. It is therefore all the more essential that people take this serious and do their part by observing the guidelines. Sooner or later, this shall be all over and we’ll be back to normal life again.
A quick recovery to all the infected and Happy Easter to you all!
@Monde
Dont get the facts twisted….minorities are dying more because of lack of proper medical care in their communities and majority of the minority have no insurance…the truth is if a white man goes to the hospital suffering the same illness as a black man….a black man has more chances of dying because of inequality the way minorities are treated…they did an undercover investigation a few years ago in New York city at a certain hospital and what they uncovered that these doctors were doing was alarming….
I told dunderhead Kaizer Zulu that if the Kafue Man died of Coronavirus and he was only tested after he died….that means he infected 59 000 people..
We have people who wish evil for this country. Its strange some people in Zambia and on these social media who would condemn Mr Lusambo. What action honestly can any sane person against someone who is risking the lives of many citizens with a disease that has killed over 100,000 people in less than 2 months. South Africa has soldiers on the streets just like most hit European Countries. All those still accusing PF of lying lack understanding of what is going on in the world. Most governments on earth including China, UK and USA only knows cases of those who have asked them for tests or have been taken ill to hospital. Yes there could be many cases on the loose like the late Kafue man. Hence the emphasis for mask wearing and social distancing.
Lusambo stay home
Thank you Ba Chilufya.
May God bless you and your team. Ignore those who accuse you of lying. Èven the rich countries UK and USA have not tested the whole country. Please systematically apply the limited resources. We pray that Zambians will adhere to the guidelines.
Please Zambians let us support the little efforts the govt is making .DO NOT BE LIKE OUR FRIENDS.
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Kabu – I am very much normal but I can assure I am not as gullible and docile as you…which country has tested all its people you ask me daftly? Countries like RSA have tested tens of thousand ….South Korea and Germany will test all their nations as for Zambia its unclear which tragedy they are following.
I have a feeling you must be the LT impostor as he is the only one with access to the reply button facilities.
Obviously you’re not in touch with reality because just yesterday the equivalent of the minister of health in RSA was explaining how far they still are with testing and was wishing they could do even more. No single nation had prepared for this pandemic meaning that even resources available are limited. USA received millions of testing equipment from Russia but they still need to reach out to many other people to test! Appreciate limitations in your own country!
Please Bowman, come to Kafue and teach us those lessons. You can’t believe that people here are watching what’s happening in the world on their T.Vs. They may be thinking it’s another Nigerian film and thinking all is well. By the time they come to realize it’s real, the streets will be impassable with stupid corpses. God have mercy on us.
Now this raises more questions: the 58 year who was first contact with Pakistan, wasn’t his case supposed to be determined as having contracted the virus before the symptoms showed much earlier than now,confined and his contacts before passing the virus to others? Now himself has so has the daughter and the network grows.Something wrong with our interventions especially testing!!
Kafue is now a hot spot,crose those monday and friday markets they attract alot of people as far as lusaka. To the 3 patients get well soon
soon you will be recording hundreds of coronavirus cases per day
Bandit President Lungu, Boris Johnson the man you were already shading tears for has already been released from hospital…Lungu was quick to worry about Boris and yet he cares less about Zambians….and we told you that Boris was just fooling around and was never really sick…never trust a Politician…to much tricks and gymnastics
Kabu do not mind these naive evil spirits in diaspora like tarino and anonymous. To them they expect every person in the country to be tested even when the same UK they have run to that cant happen. Ask them if they have been tested in their respective adopted countries abroad. I trust you that they have not. They find it easy to criticise their former country anonymously because as a black man abroad they cant dare criticise the government there for not testing every citizen. I mean how could they when they are considered alien immigrants? Do you see why these wild hyenas act this way?
This thing is super contagious and it’s been confirmed black minorities are disproportionately being hit by the more severe symptoms and likely go need Intensive care prone to die from covid19. People with diabetes, with heart conditions of other underlying medical conditions.
If you are African you are in danger. LISTEN to guidance if you go out and stay at home if you don’t need to get food. If you must work like Market/Street Traders, then wear Masks and if possible protective eyeglasses even use those swimming Google’s that cover the eyes completely, (uncomfortable),but might help. Cancel Weddings, funerals (here people are being buried by authorities without relatives being allowed to see or attend). EVENTUALLY THINGS WILL BE NORMAL again. TRUST IN GOD. PRAY.
I think the Ministry of Health is doing a commendable job under the circumstances. Dr Chilufya is updating the nation of developments at every opportunity. There is no vacuum at the Ministry of Health! This is good isn’t it? And it’s right that they should only test identified cases and their contacts; as ‘blanket’ testing everyone will be too costly, and would put unnecessary pressure on laboratories…how many labs are available to process Covid-19 tests?
Dunderhead Kaizar Zulu at least you’ve acknowledged that no proper and accurate testing is being done in Zambia…COVID 19 testing isnt cheap….So tell your dull health Minister Chitalu Chilufya to stop lying about testing….the truth is thousands of Zambians are walking around with CONVID 19
At least the fact that we are not yet picking dead bodies from streets still gives us hope. Until that time when it happens we shall continue to encourage each other to fight together!
This is off topic , but pleas country men , Zambias democracy is under assault by lungu…….
With the closing of prime tv , pleas sign this petition which will be sent to all Zambias cooperating partners
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Zambiaisours – There are too many noisy empty tins in here to adopt critical thinking like you….they would rather clap even though Chilufya is buying face masks at inflated prices
Prophets of doom leave us alone and stick to what your adopted countries are doing. All you want to hear is that we are dying like flies.
Rememember these same people you want dead so that the government looks like there is nothing there are doing are the ones you will need to put you demi god in power.
The only enemy we have is convid 19 that we should fight so stop fighting Doc Chilufya and his team they have so far done a recommendable job.
Any evil talk over Zambia will go back to you the prophets of Doom.
When Zambia does not record any case then MOH is lying. When we do then you start say your usual we told you…..STOP IT FOR ONCE enough is enough and just shows how you politicize everything!!!!
Mutinta – Let me drive this through your thick dense dome…we are not Prophets doom but we have seen first hand how deadly this disease is especially for black people with underlying illness like diabetes, sickle cells etc some people out there dont even know they have underlying illness. You dont just carry out tests here and there then say proudly that today we have zero tests and say silly prayers. Chilfya hasn’t even got 10 ventilators to spare he will simply be switching off machines and saying someone had underlying illness
Wake up you morons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You continue following this boyo impostor who is safely typing rubbish from his council house in the UK whilst the UK govt pays him to stay at home or furlong leave. The boyo has zero principles tomorrow he will posting as Hakienda as he has the time for silliness
Poverty will definitely impact negatively on the stay at home directive, but stupidity is slowly but heavily leading us to mass graves. Not so many people as one I have seen observing social distancing on the whole of copper belt. Min buses are parked, markets are crowded with no one wearing masks, it’s pure self distructive madness. Dont how to help the situation.
Who has rattled tarino’s cage today? The savage has lost it. I cant even add anything else to what has already been mentioned. You cant please these prophets of doom indeed. Doc chilufya and our health experts are doing a great job given the circumstances. We are not a rich country by European standards and we are using the little we have to fight a virus which is unknown to the entire world. We have recorded 2 deaths while thousands have died in the same developed world. So I find it hard for some laymen sat behind a keyboard to criticise all day and yet do nothing. If chilufya and the rest of us here in Zambia are dull and doing wrong then why dont you find your way back home and come and do what you think we should be doing since you are the qualified doctors and experts.?
You listen to me prophet of Doom….LEAVE US alone….so what do you want GRZ to do?
You think Zambians don’t understand the seriousness of this disease….from where you are hibernating have you been tested……and the most organised countries with resources incomparable to Zambia are also facing various challenges but you prophet of doom all you see is politics in Zambia.
Like I said you are so negative……leave us alone
South Africa is testing in all its provinces and reporting accordingly.
Its a good approach . Perhaps we can adopt that if we are not doing that already.
Just a suggestion !
Mutinta
“…You listen to me prophet of Doom….LEAVE US alone…..”
Ni Zambian yaba nyoko ?
What’s the quarrel about.
Danger knocks. Let.us be alert.
Seems like Zambia has many hidden corona cases given how low the testing numbers are.The next 2 to 3 weeks we might see 30 to 80 new cases emerge and then hundreds.
Tarino Orange you are worse than Coronavirus. Dr Chilufya has said 106 in the last 24 hours and cumulatively 1548 tests. What do you want. For you want more tests so that there can be more results. You want chimenyemenye tests instead focusing the most vulnerable. That is a waste of resources. Foolish thinking. Let us appreciate the work being done.
Didn’t these same fools state that everyone who was in Connection with the those that went Pakistan were tested and quarantined? Where from have these two cases come from if all were located and tested last time. Lies, lies, lies all the time lies, who are you trying to please with your lies?. Indeed fools will always be exposed
I wouldn’t be surprised if impostor is Mutinta…the small boy has too much time.
LT bring back flags as these comments could populated by one sick individual.
Tarino the problem with weak minds is that they will spill all sorts of rubbish and then when people rightfully challenge your views you claim they are imposters. You find every silly excuse under the sun to avoid taking any responsibility for the foolishness you post day in day out. You now allege I am behind every comment on this platform. You must be a very dull deluded silly boy. Use your common sense for once. If you cant justify your views then stay away from this platform. Kz
The 58 year old man of Makeni should be held responsible and made to pay for the innocent lives that will be affected because of his irresponsibility. Actually, this man should be deported when he recovers. He does not love our Country, he only loves himself.
I mean look at the upvotes and downvoters here. It is clear to see that the majority do not agree with your negative outlook and have been down voting your posts, including that bonehead spaka. I have always said that I would ensure liars and jokers like you are gotten rid of. People are now beginning to believe me that you are just some sadists who want to take your sadness out on zambia. You are British now so what do you want here ?
KZ
“……You are British now so what do you want here ?…”
Ni LT ya nyoko ???
Looks like Mutinta is a PF die-hard cadre ,just like Kaizer Zulu. Now we ve two nincompoops here….eish!
For all level headed people, this is not about scoring points, but bringing minds together to assess the best measures in the circumstances of our country Zambia. I have said time and again here that some western countries were slow to react and hence the higher tragic numbers. I said we needed to learn from this by moving quicker. For example, reduce the 50 number, secure borders more firmly, impose more internal travel restrictions and seek WHO and other assistance for PPE & testing. No one is suggesting testing the whole population, it’s getting as many as possible in more areas to have a clearer surveillance strategy.
We must not relax whenever we record no new cases once in a while. This may be due to our robust health measures put in place by our government. But because the rest of the world is still afflicted by COVID-19 we still remain vulnerable. This is the reason why we must support the measures taken by our government to extend by another two weeks the restrictions on gatherings etc. Remember that this is a non partisan battle for the survival of ALL of us ZZambians.Forget the votes, they are relatively far compared to our immediate challenge. We shall have enough time to resume and enjoy our usual politics when we defeat COVID-19 together. If we dont defeat it none of us will survive to enjoy the politics, that is the bottom line fellow Zambians.
..in fact we should say measures in place are extended until further notice, not the nice sounding two weeks.
Look at this mangwam , KZ , telling people who have been blogging on LT from day one to keep away ???
We drive traffic on LT you silly kapova.
You want to turn every media into a PF vuvuzella ??
Go back to chita and find more victims to bully…., not here.
Ok, on c19, our region is going fine in slowing the pandemic , but me still thinks most of the type of people dying in the west , the ones that rely on good medical , have already perished in our region.
Hopefully this will slow down the pandemic further
Please be careful with the fong kong Covid 19 protective equipment donated by them as it could be purposely contaminated to eradicate Abena Africa. Ku fong kong baletsmfya ama students from their houses out into the streets accusing them ati you’re spreading Covid 19. Things are so bad over there resulting in the Kenyan government to think of letting them zhing zhangs to go bk where they came from. Sad but to say the act of Idi Amini can’t be bad right now ….the theme of Covid 19 is stay at home but black people are thrown out in the open by authorities so they can be next to covid19 and be scapegoats. I strongly support Kenya in retaliating. Africa Wake up ama chocho li tebanenu…..ask Kenya.
Invest in some modelled statistical testing not only for those contact tracing but also for the general Zambian Populations to full map out the epidemic and manage it intelligently So far so Good minister but the number of tests of people in the overall population performed the should be increased across the country
See this extract
Epidemiology is a bit like baseball. Knowing that a ball player has gotten 134 hits isn’t that informative. What is informative is knowing that those 134 hits were made during 335 at-bats, which translates into a batting average of .400. But we can only know the batting average if we know the player’s total number of at bats and hits. It’s the same thing for the coronavirus: We need…
to know the number of all tests in in each age group and each locale, as well as the number of positive ones.
To know if Covid-19 is getting better or worse, we need to know how the percentage of positive cases — not the number — changes day by day, accounting for delays in testing and reporting and how the percentages change in response to public health measures such as sheltering-in-place or suppression. This will tell us how effective these measures are in curtailing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and thus whether when social restrictions could be relaxed or additional policies might need to be
The other two questions that need answers are essential for guiding doctors in their medical decision making: Who is getting Covid-19? And what are their outcomes?
Consider the CDC’s latest…
tstudy on the first 4,226 coronavirus cases in the United States. For one-third of these cases, no information was available about whether the patient had to be hospitalized. More than half lacked information on whether the patient required treatment in an intensive care unit. For just under half, it was unclear if the patient survived the infection or died. And, vitally important for a disease that has such disparate impacts on different segments of the population, there wasn’t even the most basic demographic data — age, sex, race— for 10% of the cases.
If we are going to get a handle on this fearsome disease, we need to stop emphasizing the sheer number of tests and whether any citizen can walk up and get tested. Instead, we need to insist on four basic groups of information…
gathering as we expand testing.
First, as a condition of receiving approval and test kits, laboratories should be required to submit basic information like age, county of residence, and testing site on every person tested — not just the positives.
Second, we need a sero survey of multiple communities. Such studies test blood samples from randomly chosen individuals in a defined population. This is the way to assess the real percentage of people in a community who test positive for recent coronavirus infection. This gives a picture that is wider than just the individuals who are bringing themselves in for testing. Right now we simply have no idea how many Americans are infected with the coronavirus. This will be a key input to models trying to predict when herd immunity can begin to…
blunt the outbreak.
That means we need to do random testing of people in communities like New Rochelle or Seattle that have been hard-hit by the outbreak. When one of us (F.M.) worked in New York City leading the fight against West Nile virus, health workers went door to door, testing and surveying households in the epicenter of the outbreak to understand the true case-fatality rate and the true infection rate of the virus.
Related: Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China
Third, the CDC needs to rapidly help state and local public health agencies set up what is known as sentinel testing for Covid-19. This means they need money and technical support to collect comprehensive clinical and exposure information on a systematic sample of patients. That…
. That could be through existing sentinel clinics set up for influenza surveillance, drive-through coronavirus testing sites, or having select hospitals volunteer to systematically collect key information and test results for a sample of patients with cough and fever or severe acute respiratory illness.
Fourth, we need to look deeply into the information we already have. We should investigate data being collected daily in nearly every state on what are known as syndromic surveillance clusters. One of us helped design and build such a system for monitoring emergency room visits in New York City, which are now showing unprecedented increases in respiratory and flu-like complaints since March 1. By last Thursday, there had been 4,663 emergency visits with these complaints in 2020, while…
Thus observed from this Monday 3 additional briefing You have well managed so far but doing the obove observatons will enrich your management and mapping the Zambian epidemic
regards