MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo says Cabinet will decide to invoke Statutory Instrument (SI) No. 79 of 2017, which prohibits gatherings of more than five people among other provisions. Giving an update on the cholera situation at the Heroes National Cholera Treatment Centre in Lusaka, Friday, Masebo said SI No. 79 will likely be invoked within 24 hours, as she was waiting for Cabinet to decide. “You recall yesterday I did talk about the fact that the government was considering invoking Statutory Instrument (SI) No. 79, basically invoking the Public Health Act. We have in place Statutory Instrument No. 79 which gives the Ministry of Health extra powers to be able to do certain things which ordinarily have been kind...

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