One covid-19 related death has been recorded in Zambia in the last seven days bring the cumulative number of deaths to 11 in the country.
And Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has announced that Zambia has in the last seven days recorded 182 new coronavirus cases out of 9,725 tests conducted.
Dr Chilufya said the one death recorded is from Lewanika General Hospital in Mongu involving one of the first nine cases recorded and the patient had an underlying medical condition.
Updating the nation on COVID-19 pandemic, the Minister said the one death recorded brings the cumulative number of deaths to 11 while the cumulative number of cases is now 1,382 out of 45,248 tests conducted so far.
Dr Chilufya who recently recovered from the pandemic said out of the 182 cases recorded, 26 were Community members, 17 contacts to known cases, 36 from facility based surveillance, 54 from mass careening and 44 from points of entry.
He said 154 patients from isolation facilities have been discharged in the last seven days bringing the number of recoveries to 1,142.
Dr Chilufya added that all the patients in the facilities remain stable.
We are have moved on doc….as await the opening of bars..
A special appeal to our honorable minister of Health Dr. Chitalu Chilufya. We have seen that you have allowed Schools and other institutions of learning to reopen so that pupils in the examination classes and final year students should continue with their studies. These have been allowed to meet full schedules according to the timetables available. But Churches which are similar to learning institutions have been allowed only one hour. Yet in most cased we have even put in place better sanitary measures that most Schools. Why giving us just one hour of worship. Please consider allocating more time to Churches as well and do not allow the devil to run away with the gospel. Other Churches like the S.D.A.s have stopped meeting altogether. Please give us more time.
Good to see the Doc well recovered and back to work again. It’s now 3 months since some so called “experts” predicted a catastrophe but things are still clearly under control. The virus is overrated and our capacity to handle it underrated. The 11 deaths are unfortunate but it makes no sense to vaccinate 17 million healthy people when most of those infected will naturally recover without any particular treatment.
In China the cases are beginning to rise again. In Brazil & South Africa it is the same . South Africa is even thinking of closing schools thta were recently opened because some teachers have been found the be positive. Zambia must be very careful about re-opening the churches for longer periods let alone opening bars. Ala twalafwa !
All the things you mention church are you a Satanist
Ifwe ba JW we do not go to the Kingdom halls. We have accepted the new normal with the use of technology. It is working. Just adapt.
Do not make a mistake of opening bars!
This man has been cleared by ACC already?
Criminals holding onto power and they want us to take them serious.
PF must go!
Ama places ayengi mu Lusaka, bars are operating without any trouble. Tulenwa na ma senior PF officials and ministers …
ACC where are you this man is fit for further questioning.
Neneh Cherry – you are a very gullible chap if you are trying to prove a point given the way data has collected and manipulated…you think doing 300 tests a day for a cities like Lusaka and Ndola is adequate…what is even more buffling about you is you are based in Germany where they are doing 10,000/day. I dont whether its your subtle blind loyalty to PF or you are simply just demented or just a plain stupid wo/man as you perpetuate with the same folly.
STOP VIMA TESTING IWE CHITALU IWE. YOUR LOVE OF MONEY WILL KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN WE CAN IMAGINE. ZAMBIA IS ONE OF THE 5 AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT ARE TESTING GROUNDS FOR COVID VACCINES AND YOU WANT TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY THIS TIME. YOU’VE STOLEN ENOUGH BAYAMA PLIZ
Am happy to see back my minister Dr chitalu chilufya cause he gives good details on corona virus ,may our lord continue keeping his .sir welcome back I love!!!
Maybe this minister just took some time off work to go count the money he has made.
The two weeks he took off was not enough to finish the counting.
Those rising numbers are depressing .
If Covid was going to ravage Zambia, it’s not through churches or bars. Even restaurants could have spread it widely. It’s the markets, bus stops and streets that could have spread it widely. Freedom Way salaula Street market for example is patronised by 50 times more people than all the restaurants in the cbd combined!! So let’s not be naive and think bars are the only threat to spreading this disease….
Yet I stole a chicken n was put away for 6 months now look at Chilufya, he only did about 3 days of time n he’s roaming health institutions. AKapatulula kabi!
Great to have you back Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, I personally missed your medical expertise in this fight. Glad you recovered well. Cheers!!