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Mass COVID-19 screening and Testing gets underway in Lusaka’s Emmasdale and Chaisa Township

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Mass screening and Testing is underway in Lusaka’s Emmasdale and Chaisa Township which are considered high risk areas for COVID-19.

Lusaka Provincial Health Director Consity Mwale says 150 health workers have been deployed to the two townships to conduct screening and testing for COVID-19.

The Health Workers who comprise Doctors, Clinical Officers, Environmental Health Officers , Laboratory Officers and Data Personnel target to test 1,000 People.

Dr Mwale says the health workers also target to screen 3000 people.

He says the Health Workers who have been divided into ten teams, will screen and test people at Emmasdale Central Mosque, Twatotela School and Bank Houses.

Dr Mwale says the remaining team have been deployed at Chaisa Mosque where they have set up four screening points.

And, Lusaka Muslim Society Executive Member, Zakir Khankhara said it is the Muslim Community civic duty to help government in the fight against COVID-19.

22 COMMENTS

  1. I like how proactive our government is. This is why we have experienced few deaths. Continue with your hard work. A lot of national awards will be awarded to the great men and women in uniform end of this year. Kz

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  2. If the government did not carelessy allow in those moslem pilgrims travellers from Pakistan we would not be in this situation, we would probably have at most 4 cases. The rules of entry and quarantine were already in place then so cant rule out bribery at the entry points.

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  3. Anyway now continue the hard work, much appreciated. And please remember to protect the health workers FIRST, otherwise there will be nobody to look after our Covid-19 patients, including the leadership, okay? Covid doesnt choose, remember?

  4. We are not in very bad situation as far as corvid19 is concerned.But we
    Have to continue with this pace.Let
    Lusambo be promoted as Corvid19
    Boss.

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  5. @KZ…This is not proactive but reactive sir. Where did the man in Matero and George get from the virus in the first place if there is effective contact tracing? Very few direct imports of the virus not so many travellers in the country and Convic yafika ku Matero…Ni Lesa fye bane pa.

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  6. The elders here remember KK’s Operation Cleanup. They could effectively seal off the whole compound and search house by house. This pandemic requires such a militant approach. Form a multi-discipline elite Task Force.

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  7. Guest Houses in Matero are still operating at full capacity and no one is a stranger to what goes on in those guest houses, they could be a serious conduit to Covid19 especially the so called SHORT TIME.

  8. Guest Houses in Matero are still operating at full capacity and no one is a stranger to what goes on in those guest houses, they could be a serious conduit to Covid19 especially the so called SHORT TIME OR SHORT TAIMO IN TONGA
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  9. Message well received. This is great news for a country like ours. I think Zambia in the sub Saharan is performing the best. I don’t expect the country to conduct 20,000 tests a day like Australia as the capacities are different. This is great. Keep it up MOH and the helping community

  10. Ok but catpower you have a head! Kwati pumpkin Yaku solwezi. I am also in aussie bra. Which side are you?

  11. It takes about 24 hours in countries that are efficient to get back test results …I just wonder how long Chilufya takes with his so called mass screening given that he only has one lab and one machine and what happens if the person is found to be positive. This is what journalist should asking Chilufya…the problem is our journalists are afraid to ask technical questions to get clarity. Ask Chilufya about the donations people are giving MOH …ask him about how they have spent that K28 million from Trade Kings.

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  12. Very impressive. Let’s be proactive in this fight. Thank you MoH and our Heros and Heroines at the front line.

  13. The Chinese test kits need to be tested too, trust the Chinese at your own peril. So many Africans in that country now know them better after forced evictions , no healthcare n beatings. Here in Zed our politicians stay on the fence once they receive that brown envelop….awe mwandi bwafya.

  14. Why Chilufya emtargetting Muslim community? Is it not a display of Islamophobia? Is it a sin to go for a pilgrimage?

  15. @ radula, Chilufya is very right in the way he is handling the covid 19 program in Zambia and not that he is islamophobic. It’s only that most Muslims like you are sturborn and do not want to follow the laws of any government because you have few millions and shops in Zambia

  16. Countrymen, stop fooling around and making fun of COVID-19. This is a serious issues that requires every citizen and resident of Zambia to be responsible and supportive of the national efforts. This is just the beginning, When the heat is on some people will not be around to make funny comments on this platform. Their flesh would be food for the worms already, their souls answering questions from the big man upstairs.

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