MINISTER of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya says the 19-year-old girl from Bauleni Compound who had attempted suicide before being swabbed for coronavirus has died.
And Dr Chilufya says the country has recorded four new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total to 61.
Speaking at a briefing today, Dr Chilufya classified the 19-year-old’s death as being COVID-19 related.
“In the last 24 hours, Zambia conducted 397 tests and out of those, four were recorded positive. So Zambia has recorded 4 new positives of COVID-19 cases to 61. With the death that we recorded that is COVID related, mortality has now risen to 3,” said Dr Chilufya.
He said of the four new cases, two are from Kafue while the other two are health personnel from Chilenje Hospital.
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God we need your intervention
What caused the girl to commit the attempted suicide in the first place…???
Yes and wat she used to attempt the suicide. Is it covid that killed her or her suicide was successful…???
God help us
Sad development
Covid 19 related,and you are saying before the swipe was done on her,she died.
Did she die of covid 19?..or suicide act was successful?.
..am confused!
This is serous people take care of yourself, stay at home guy’s
The response to the Coronavirus in Zambia is being done at a very minute scale! The virus is highly contagious and spreading fast. But what is our government doing, mere rhetoric.
Help us sinners Father
Stay home stay safe stop the spread and also abide with the preventive measures most important during this free space pray more often as we are all quarantine
Why in other places in zambia gorvenment does not offer the mask face to the people?
Could you please provide gender disaggregated data for the confirmed cases, tests and mortality cases
Were are we going now everything is bad please government do something
God help us
Can someone explain why the minister of health rarely wears a musk even though he is in public?
Thank Mr minister u are doing your best sir
Only God can help us,the bible says if my pipo who are called by my name will humble themselfs ,I the lord will hear them and heal their land,how do you expect God to hear us and heal out land,when you have allowed churches to close,and breweries to be selling take away alcohol……liquor stores to be selling take away, allow churches to be opening with less than 40 members, if it will take that pastor to be preaching 6 sessions let him or her do that,we need God in whole this ………..we are going towards winter what do you think the total will be …..we need God,we need to eat,….for how long are we going to lock ourselves??????????
Sad development God help US
Really cases are in thousands…just zambia government don’t have proper equipments to test the peoples and according to WHO those who are suffering with HIV their chances of death are more…so big trouble is coming in africa now…just fallow the precautions to avoid this disease