MINISTER of Tourism Rodney Sikumba has urged the general public to ensure that they are vaccinated in view of the surge in COVID-19 cases. In an interview, Sikumba said the pandemic was a threat to businesses and traditional ceremonies. “The COVID-19 pandemic is always a threat to business, to traditional ceremonies alike and it has been our call to Zambians countrywide to say get vaccinated so that some of these issues affected by COVID-19 are not affected per se. Now, yes we seem to have a spike in these COVID numbers which obviously is something that we have to look into. It’s unfortunate that the numbers are increasing, it will definitely put a threat on these ceremonies that we want...

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