By OLIVER SAMBOKOZAMBIA will only win the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by removing politics from the issue and allowing technocrats to do their work, former Health Minister, Jonas Chanda has said.Dr Chanda said if Government continued making political decisions and pronouncements in the pandemic, the result is that many lives will be lost to the new Covid-19 wave that is coming in December.Dr Chanda said it’s sad that no one has been monitoring and enforcing the Covid-19 preventive measures. “People have been gathering normally at public places including at bars, churches and market places,” he said.He said the government should escalate the Covid vaccination among the public to 80 percent from the current two to three percent to achieve high level of vaccination.Dr Chanda said Covid-19 just like other pandemics like HIV/Aids are social- economic issues and non-political therefore politicians should stay away from making decisions that will in the long run put the […]
CHANDA CAUTIONS GOVT ON COVID
