• Striking a balance between saving lives, livelihoods, schools and the economy remains top priority.
• In the last 24 hours, One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-Eight (1,388) new confirmed cases have been recorded.
• We recorded Twenty-Seven new deaths in the last 24 hours.

Ministry of Health says Government is seriously considering imposing restrictions and a lockdown owing to the current Covid 19 progress.
Ministry Permanent Secretary-Technical Services, Dr. Kennedy Malama said striking a balance between saving lives, livelihoods, schools and the economy remains top priority but a situation where people continue flouting public health guidelines leading to spiral of COVID 19 infections will not be allowed.

“What we see today is that members of the public expects restrictions and indeed a lockdown to be effected for us to stem the COVID 19 infections.”

“We would like to remind our people that Government is seriously considering imposing these restrictions at the rate we are progressing as a country,” he said.

Dr. Malama further urged enforcement wings within the COVID 19 multispectral response to ramp up interventions at community level through effective engagement and participation of various stakeholders.
Meanwhile, Dr. Malama disclosed that, in the last 24 hours, One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-Eight (1,388) new confirmed cases have been recorded out of 7,110 tests conducted bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases recorded to date to 113,134.

“We recorded Twenty-Seven (27) new deaths in the last 24 hours.” He announced.

According to Dr. Malama, “this is the second highest figure we have recorded since the start of pandemic over a year ago.”