A STUDY by the Boston University School of Public Health has revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic in Lusaka has been highly underestimated with the COVID-19 deaths having been under-reported between June and September, 2020. According to the report, dubbed: COVID-19 deaths detected in a systematic post-mortem surveillance study in Africa, released in January, and co-authored...

THE four pupils who were arrested in connection with the murder of a Kabulonga Secondary School pupil have appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court. The four, who are believed to be pupils of Twin Palm Secondary School and aged between 16 and 19, are charged with one count of murder, contrary to section 200 of...

THE Lusaka High Court has dismissed a case where three Vedanta Resources companies sued Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu over plans to restructure and reorganise KCM into two separate subsidiary companies; namely KCM SmelterCo Limited and Konkola Mineral Resources Limited. High Court Judge Winnie Mwenda has also discharged the ex-parte order of...

SOME schools in Lusaka yesterday turned away some unmasked pupils from attending classes. A spot check in some schools around Lusaka District revealed that pupils were allowed entry into school premises without being screened, although those without face masks were being sent back home. Meanwhile, some parents were found checking on the preparedness of the...

MILENGE PF member of parliament Mwansa Mbulakulima says Honeybee-supplied defective medicines, test kits and condoms are weapons of mass destruction. And Mbulakulima says he does not understand why Honeybee is being stubborn instead of showing remorse by asking for forgiveness. Meanwhile, Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Howard Kunda has urged the Ministry of Health to...

HONEYBEE Pharmacy Limited has sued the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) in the Lusaka High Court seeking an order to forbid the authority from revoking its license. Honeybee, which is being represented by Tutwa S Ngulube & Company, has further denied supplying defective goods to the procuring entity. It now wants an order of interim...

PF MEDIA director Sunday Chanda says revelations from the Corruption Perceptions Index that corruption has worsened is an indications that the PF government has put in place mechanisms that are able to effectively detect it in the public sector. Transparency International Zambia released the Corruption Perception Index last week which showed that the country had...

SECRETARY to the Treasury Fredson Yamba says donors are not making cash donations towards the fight against COVID-19 but are instead providing various equipment and carrying out certain activities towards that goal. Meanwhile, Yamba says government can only give incentives to frontline health workers when it has the means to do so. Speaking when he...

PRESIDENTIAL Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe says having gone round the country with President Edgar Lungu, he can tell that Zambians are ready to vote for him. Last week, UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema successfully filed in his nomination to stand for party president at the upcoming UPND general conference. But in an interview, Sikazwe said President...

THE Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) says it has instituted investigations to establish the cause of defects in the recalled Cevite Tablets. In a statement, Monday, ZAMRA senior public relations officer Christabel LLiamupu said the Authority had quarantined all batches of Cevite Tablets at Shalina Pharmaceuticals Limited. ZAMRA encouraged members of the public to report...