CROSS-BORDER TRADE BEHIND SOARING EAST COVID-19 CASES

By KALOBWE BWALYA                                               COVID-19 has badly hit Eastern province because of cross-border activities from neighboring Malawi where the pandemic is rampant, Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) director Professor Victor Mukonka has said.Prof Mukonka said Eastern province was a busy province because of people that flock the area for various business activities.Prof Mukonka said Eastern province had recoded a high number of patients that were in the facilities and that the neighboring country had an upswing of Covid-19 cases in health facilities.He however said that although Eastern Province was an epicenter, Ministry of Health had ramped up technical and logistical support to the province, while heightening prevention, monitoring and treatment interventions.Prof Mukonka said people should not relent or rather discard the wearing of masks, saying that the pandemic was highly infectious and deadly.He expressed concern that despite the progress that was being made, government remained concerned with the high number of critically ill patients in […]