MINISTRY of Health permanent secretary for technical services Dr Kennedy Malama says travellers without proof of SARS-CoV-2 negative status will not be allowed into the country. And Dr Malama says in the last 24 hours, the country has reported 24 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of 2,988 tests conducted. In a statement, Monday, Dr Malama said the country was conducting “genomic sequencing” as part of routine surveillance to identify variants of concern. “As a country we continue conducting heightened surveillance and contact tracing at all points-of-entry, hospitals and communities. We are also conducting genomic sequencing as part of routine surveillance to identify variants of concern to inform decision making and action. As we ramp up surveillance at points of...

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