THE awareness levels on COVID-19 in villages and outlying areas of the country need to be up-scaled through effective sensitization programmes.It is important to be proactive and boost sensitisation programmes in villages and far-flung areas so that the ravaging COVID-19 can be kept away from these areas.Certainly, it is not pleasant to imagine the rapid speed with which the pandemic can spread across villages in an event that the contamination reaches these locations.The health systems in the countryside are not as strong while literacy levels are low, thus making inhabitants in such areas highly susceptible to COVID-19 attack.This is why a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Response Network (RN), has rolled out a sensitization programme to villages in Kazungula, Livingstone and Zimba districts, reaching out to information-starved villagers.Response Network has trained 23 volunteers who have since been dispatched to villages in Kuyaba, Simwatachela, Sipatunyana chiefdoms and other areas to sensitise the villagers about the Covid-19.This is a […]
Covid-19: Enlist villagers
