MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo has closed down Kuku Police Station for having a leaking water pipe within its walls. Masebo has also shut down a business premise in Chawama township for one week, and instructed that it be cleaned before it can be reopened. Meanwhile, Masebo has urged people to avoid traveling unless necessary, lamenting that Zambians like moving about uselessly. The minister, who took time to sensitise the public using a mounted PA system yesterday, announced that cholera had claimed 14 lives in the last 24 hours. Speaking when she addressed the media at Chawama Level One Hospital, Masebo said this was not the time for people to be going for holidays. “The African Union (AU) and SADC...

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