Category: Gender & health

[blockquote style=”1″]*Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO*[/blockquote] (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that his government was trying to determine whether the virus emanated from a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic emerged in December. “All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in...

Ministry of Health (MoH) Permanent Secretary (PS) for Administration Dr. Kennedy Malama with Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya with Local Government Minister Dr. Charles Romel Banda at Chilenje Level 1 Hospital Monday 20 April 2020 Kwilanzi News Zambia Kwilanzi New Zambia    Be the first to like. Like Unlike

We will not distribute branded masks, insists UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka By Luswepo Mutepuka – Kwilanzi News Zambia Photo-Journalist OPPOSITION United Party for National Development says the party has resolved not to make UPND branded masks, to be distributed countrywide in compliance with President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s directive that wearing a mask is now mandatory. Party Secretary General Stephen Katuka says the party is aware of the ruling Patriotic Front’s branded masks, but UPND will not make any branded masks on account of the seriousness it attaches in fight against the dreaded covid 19 pandemic. Formerly, UPND Mwinilunga Member of...

By Linda Kasonde Executive Director, Chapter One Foundation  Email: infodesk@cof.org.zm Telephone: +260 953 725 510 We look forward to being of assistance. Chapter One Foundation promotes and protects human rights, human rights defenders, constitutionalism, social justice and the rule of law in Zambia, primarily through strategic litigation, advocacy and capacity building. Our aim is to promote and protect the Constitution and the rights included in it and by so doing, free the space for Zambians to fully realise the rights and freedoms afforded to them in a democratic society such as Zambia. Chapter One Foundation appreciates that during the Corona Virus...

By Miriam Chonya, United Party for National Development (UPND) Kafue Member of Parliament (MP) Lock Down Update:- People have complied with the directive to remain home; The streets are empty and so far disinfecting of markets has taken place and the health people are on the ground to carry out mass testing. They are targeting to test around 1, 800 people today (Wednesday 115th April 2020), concentrating in the urban/ centre prone to being high risk. Teams have been dispatched in the various parts of Kafue to do some preliminary tests. Only cases requiring further investigation will be referred to...