About 30 suspected cases of COVID-19 were picked up from the mass testing in Kafue after the small transit town was put on total lockdown.
The samples of the 30 cases have since been dispatched to Lusaka for laboratory confirmation and Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya is expected to confirm the cases of the name at today’s briefing.
Dr. Chilufya stated when he visited Kafue late yesterday that the compliance levels among Kafue residents had been impressive as most of them stayed home to be screened.
He said the results of the Kafue exercise will to a great extent determine how the Zambia COVID-19 response will proceed.
By Wednesday, Zambia had recorded three more positive COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Chilufya said two cases involve two females aged 23 and 29 respectively who are contacts of the man from Makeni while the third case is of a 26-year-old man who arrived from Poland on the 12 April 2020 aboard Ethiopian airlines.
He said the new 3 cases are out of 150 cases that were tested between Monday and Tuesday.
Oh gosh….
Dr. Chilufya is doing a fantastic job.
But there is the other guy in the above picture, who know zero. He is soiling the picture! He is an ignorant kaponya, whose only expertise is violence. Even mentioning his name is just repulsive to me.
Anyway, keep up the good work Dr.
Why are they still allowing passenger planes into the country?
Ethiopian airways has the largest fleet of cargo planes in Africa.
Only goods or cargo should be allowed into the country and not passengers or travelers.
THE PF DON’T SEEM TO LEARN.
BUSY BEATING UP LOCAL ZAMBIANS BUT ALLOWING TRAVELERS TO BRING IN COVID-19
Dr chilufya knows his job.
Start digging those mass graves before the whole Zambia starts to smell like a morgue. The virus will teach you the lesson some of us were trying to put through to your thick skulls
At I umuntu ni lungu, inga iwe ulimbwa?
The ministry of Health should clear the air over these revelation. Give an official report over a necessary Wonderful activity done in Kafue. Its only sure way to stop false damaging alarming rumours.
As Zambia we just leave by the glace of God not that we are on top of things. We are not proactive but reactive. I passed through Chisokome Market in Kitwe, it is a disaster in waiting. If covid is to strike, God forbid, it will be catastrophic. Please let us lockdown this market even for 24 hours for fumigating.
This is good development. When we made the decision to lockdown kafue we were called names. When lusambo stopped people making unnecessary movements he was called names. What is interesting to see is that those against our decisions are those from diaspora who have always wished more deaths upon us. These evil people won’t stop until Zambia is experiencing similar deaths to their adopted homes abroad. However this government won’t let that happen. Those crying about human rights please move ri the same Europe and see what rights you have there.
What did we tell them? For not listening to me , I pray that millions die there so that you learn a lesson next time. Some were even making fun of us here abroad now let us see what you do. As I said, Zambia needs white people to rule it to bring it back to normality
This kind of reporting is bad. The reporter is saying 30 samples had suspected COVID 19 when the exercise was for mass testing. Lets report correctly to avoid alarming the nation
This is what we have been saying, adopt an holistic approach if we have to stop this scourge before it grows out of control. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN BE DONE! Increase tests, use reliable methods of sampling to determine the likely levels of infections in even just Lusaka! NOT WAITING for people who present Covid 19 Symptoms and then rush to the TV that you have recorded another case. Be HOLISTIC in implementing controls. If truck drivers coming from S.Africa are being quarantined, WHY ARE YOU NOT DIRECTING EVERYBODY FROM HIGH COVID RISK COUNTRIES COMING THROUGH THE AIRPORT TO THE QUARANTINE CENTERS? Yesterday’s guy from Poland arrived on 12th and manifested Covid Symptoms 2 days, later. If he was quarantine we would not have worried much, but it appears he was roaming freely…
but it appears he was roaming freely possibly passing the infection on to many people. Again here it is hard to even know if the contact tracing is effective, if indeed the health and security official are really making effective follow ups after contacts have been named bcoz we only start hearing about some contacts after they manifest symptoms, when they were supposed to have been in quarantine! Who is enforcing Social distancing in markets and buses? I have not heard of any bus impounded for lack of enforcing social distancing or for lacking disinfectants for passengers!! WE NEED A MORE SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE,OTHERWISE WE MAY BE WASTING SCATTERED EFFORTS AND MAY END UP NOT WINNING!!
So the people arriving at the airport are not quarantined??? What then are we doing?? Even if they come from low_risk countries, they are supposed to be quarantined, period!!
I’m also against such kind of reporting. Giving numbers without explaining the facts/background behind them is not enough. People need to know details like how many have mild symptoms and how many are seriously ill? Some will test positve but don’t even show any symptoms.
Without this knowledge, people will tend to panic because they only see the high numbers. That it’s important to wait for the briefing from Dr. Chilufya.
Next lockdown makeni as we go step by step.All outskirts of lusaka
Should be locked down.From there
It’s emmasdale.
This deaf government of Lungu is cumbersome, why do you allow people from highly risk countries from Europe? All fleights must be grounded if you want to manage this corona virus pandemic. It appears they are playing with kids.
What have I been saying all along? There are more cases out there than the incompetent Chilufya has been showcasing …its sad that we reward incompetence Chilufya should never be heading this taskforce they are too political just look that photo of Bowman a minister on GRZ duty wearing a campaign hoodie.
How can people in the diaspora wish death on Zambians people got families in Zambia.
“The samples of the 30 cases have since been dispatched to Lusaka for laboratory confirmation and Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya is expected to confirm the cases of the name at today’s briefing.”
That says it all…everything is centralized if they get samples in Livingstone they have to sent to Lusaka…in the meantime the asymptomatic individual is still left to roam and mingle within the community. Just like those truck drivers who were brought to UNZA, they were merely being brought to Lusaka.
I SAID IT …CHILUFYA’S COVID-19 CASE NUMBERS WERE A FALLACY!
I end here for today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PF government is useless and you have put the whole nation on fire, what type of people are these who are very useless !? We told you to lockdown the country long time ago and what are you doing? Lungu js biggest failure in the history of our country, stupid and useless.
No way that this is happening! Wenye! Boza! Not in my beloved country! EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL, PERIOD! You diasporans are just jealous!
Some bloggers in here are not different from COVID-19 itself. very toxic. Pray they wont get it themselves.
@Tarino Orange, I am with you on the concerns, BUT NOT to wish massive deaths on the population you come from and indeed on any group of people. Your message is good BUT your are DILUTING IT WITH THE NEGATIVITY OF WISHING BAD FOR THE NATION BCOZ OF A FEW INDIVIDUALS! I am equally doubtful about the effectiveness of the measures and general approach adopted in fighting this problem! EVEN AT COMMUNITY LEVEL, COUNCILORS ARE NO WHERE TO BE SEEN TO LEAD POPULATIONS IN MATTERS OF DISINFECTING THEIR HANDS,MARKETS AND ENFORCEMENT OF SOCIAL DISTANCING. We only see the Mayor in TV making his publicity stunts like the Ministers are doing, to hoodwink masses that they are doing something!! GRZ allocated money to this fight, there have been some donation here and there, BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD OF ANY…
GRZ allocated money to this fight, there have been some donation here and there, BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD OF ANY PLANS TO PROCURE ADDITIONAL TESTING EQUIPMENT SO THAT ALL THIS SO CALLED ” 1st level Hospitals” CAN HAVE THEM! A friend had cough and flu, went to Levy Mwanawasa Hospital, left a sample there. They told her, they would get back to her after 3 days to tell her if she had Covid -19. She went back after not hearing them. They said they would communicate, they were still waiting for results. It is now 3 weeks, she has not heard anything, the cough and flu have even cleared. THIS IS THE LACK OF SERIOUSNESS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT!! Health staff are quietly complaining about lack of adequate protective equipment, we wonder if the Ministry is doing anything about it!!
No Zambian can wish bad on us, they got families back home. Let’s stop politicizing Health Matters
Where is that minister who always reported no new cases-3 days in a row. Or sometines he wud only add 1 digit to his figures. Other days he wud carefully 2figures. Alikuti uja?
Elo lwanya. Muzamuziba yesu…. God gave u all resources ,God gave u schools( roman catholic), God gave u brains to choose between right & wrong. God gave u three(3) chances to your your economy,but your answer was no. Instd u mocked him with fake heroes staduim prayers, fake religious ministry, fake hope and trust in him to hide your dictatorship tendencies. By the way, Lungu is not a dictator alone, all those people that voted for him are equally dictators ( including 90%of u people here on LT). I still havent forgott that LT is a PF cadre platform. Ine nala loleshya nomba.
zambiaisours – It seems you are new on LT and not every sharp upstairs…you should know what I post on LT and its not that disgusting stuff about wishing death on any people.
Cant you see that there is that impostor on LT tolerated by LT themselves to mirror and tarnish other bloggers. I have too many things to do to discuss some childish impostor prat who has too much time on his hands.
Vimachitika
I NEED MY K1.5 MILLION SHARE THAT TRADE KINGS DONATED……AND HOW CAN TK SURELY ENTRUST SUCH HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE HANDS OF THE THIEVES???
Thank you Dr Chilufya and your marvellous team of medical staff. Like in the UK, I and my family clapped for you and your team across the country today at 20:00hrs. Will do the same next for you all as I join the UK at the same time, just love the UK after Zambia mwe.