MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary Dr Kennedy Malama has noted that daily new COVID-19 cases and deaths have dropped significantly. And Dr Malama says the country has in the last 24 hours recorded 708 COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths. Meanwhile, the government of Brazil says it has officially completed its initiative to provide humanitarian aid of US$100,000 in favour of the Zambian government. Speaking during a press briefing, Thursday, Dr Malama added that the test positivity had also dropped. “We continue to record an encouraging reduction in our test positivity, hospital admissions and deaths. In the past week alone, we saw our daily new cases drop to below 1,000 new cases while our new deaths have dropped significantly, from a...

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