Archive: 6 June 2022

6 Jun 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Teenage pregnancies, abortions on the rise during Covid pandemic – YWCA

YOUNG Women Christian Association (YWCA) Copperbelt regional coordinator Sharon Mambo says the increasing number of early marriages, teenage pregnancies and abortions during the pandemic is worrying. In an interview, Mambo said there was need to […]

6 Jun 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

We need better conditions of service despite covid shocks – BETUZ

BASIC Education Teachers Union of Zambia (BETUZ) spokesperson Kabika Kakunta says COVID-19 has brought its own shocks but that is not a justification for having poor teachers’ conditions of service. In an interview, Kakunta said […]

6 Jun 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Covid had minimal effects on maize transactions – FRA

FOOD Reserve Agency executive director Chola Kafwabulula says the impact of COVID-19 on the agency in terms of buying maize from farmers was very minimal. In an interview, Kafwabulula said the agency actually exceeded its […]

6 Jun 2022 | Ulande Nkomesha

Covid will be easily transmitted in cold weather, warns MoH

MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Professor Luckson Kasonka says his ministry fears that there might be a surge in COVID-19 cases during this cold season. In an interview, Prof Kasonka said it […]

6 Jun 2022 | Mwenya Mofya

9 of 39 vehicles purchased by WCFCB are suspected to have been used for campaigns – DEC

THE Drug Enforcement Commission says nine out of the 39 vehicles purchased by the Workers’ Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) are suspected to have been used for the 2021 election campaigns. In March this year,... […]

6 Jun 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

A good percent of inmates are vaccinated – ZCS

THE Zambia Correctional Services (ZCS) says a good percentage of inmates and officers are vaccinated against COVID-19. In an interview, Zambia Correctional Service head of public relations Doreen Ngoma said the correctional facilities only recorded […]

6 Jun 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Free education has increased risk of covid infection – NAQEZ

NATIONAL Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) executive director Aaron Chansa says with free education, chances of learners contracting and transmitting the COVID-19 virus are high due to overcrowding and shortage of desks. In […]

6 Jun 2022 | Mwenya Mofya

Covid vaccination rate has increased to over 30% since we took over – HH

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says since UPND took over nine months ago, the COVID-19 vaccination rate has increased from 5 percent to over 30 percent. Speaking when he met Israel’s Ambassador to Zambia Ofra Farhi at […]

6 Jun 2022 | Philip Chisalu

Giving health workers vaccination targets might inspire false records – MQHZ

MEDICAL for Quality Healthcare in Zambia executive director Dr Quince Mwabu says giving targets to those engaged in administering COVID-19 vaccines might result in having cooked-up figures. In an interview, Friday, Dr Mwabu said the […]

6 Jun 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Nobody has the right to victimise the unvaccinated – Shamenda

FORMER labour minister Fackson Shamenda says no one has a right to victimise any person simply because they have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In an interview, Shamenda said government could, however, use other […]