Health

An additional 120,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in the country in August this year from the COVAX facility. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Kennedy Malama said the doses are in addition to the 108, 000 expected...

The Ministry of Health has expressed worry at the daily increase of confirmed COVID 19 cases being recorded countrywide resulting in overburdening isolation and treatment facilities. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary, Kennedy Malama says the ministry's projections have come to...

The Ministry of health has assured that it is doing everything possible to save lives and to ensure learning institutions and other economic activities are sustained, as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to escalate. In yesterday COVID...

The country has recorded a sharp rise in the number of Covid 19 cases with 1,231 positive cases being detected out of 10,115 tests conducted in the last 24 hours representing 12% positivity. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical...

RDAZ president Dr Brian Sampa has been summoned to appear at the Zambia Police Headquarters in Lusaka today. Dr.Sampa's unpopularity with the government and police started in May when the Resident Doctors Association Association resolved to go on a "go...

Zambia has breached the 100,000 mark of confirmed cumulative Covid-19 cases since the first case was recorded in March 2020. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Kennedy Malama said Zambia has now recorded 100,278 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 pandemic following...

The country has in the last 24 hours recorded 1,164 new confirmed cases out of 10,678 tests conducted bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases recorded to date to 99,540, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services...

The Covid-19 positive confirmed cases in the country have continued escalating with the latest recorded number in the last 24 hours standing at a 988 out of the 10,923 tests conducted. This brings the cumulative number of positive...

Zambia has in the last 24 hours recorded 825 new COVID - 19 cases out of over 10 000 tests. The figure represented an 8% positivity rate, one of the highest so far. And Zambia recorded four COVID- 19...

The Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has now approved five Covid-19 vaccines for use in the country. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services, Kennedy Malama, said this followed stringent review processes undertaken and riding on the World Health...