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Malawi to close schools, make bars shut early to curb pandemic

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Malawi to close schools, make bars shut early to curb pandemic

Malawi to close schools, make bars shut early to curb pandemic

18th January 2021

By: Reuters

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Malawi's schools are to shut for at least 15 days, and all bars must close at 8 pm, under new coronavirus restrictions announced by President Lazarus Chakwera in a television address on Sunday.

After reporting no positive cases for almost two months, the country has seen a sudden resurgence in coronavirus cases since the middle of last month.

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The new measures concerning schools and bars will take effect from Monday.

Chakwera also said the government has allocated an additional 1.6-billion kwacha in funds to be spent on recruiting frontline healthcare workers, 1 000 intensive care unit beds and 1 000 oxygen cylinders among other requirements.

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The country of 19-million people has reported 12 470 cases of Covid-19 and 314 deaths since the pandemic began last year.

Chakwere said a third of those deaths were reported in the past 16 days, forcing the government to seek additional funding to contain the pandemic at a time when the country is in 4.1-trillion kwacha of debt.

Last week the government reported that two senior cabinet ministers and two other high-profile members of the government had died from Covid-19.

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