My fellow Kenyans. On Friday, March 6th,2020 the Government of Kenya received confirmation of the first case of COVID-19, commonly known as Coronavirus. Asyoumayrecall, when we first announced the confirmation of the first case, we stated that we had traced 27 persons who had come into contact with the first patient. We have since […]

Meatco said it was suspending all educational tours and visits by the public to all its abattoirs with immediate effect. In a statement signed off by Meatco corporate communications, Rosa Hamukuaja-Thobias, the suspension was in response to the worldwide outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). “All Meatco Abattoir visits or tours are hereby suspended until 30 […]

MTC has announced the cancellation of the NAMA awards ceremony as the health ministry confirmed the presence of the deadly coronavirus in the country on Saturday. The event was scheduled to take place on the 27th of March 2020 and was estimated to bring together over 600 artists that entered for the 10th NAMAs. “The […]

The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has expressed serious concerns over the health ministry’s state of preparedness for the coronavirus, right in the heels of minister Kalumbi Shangula confirming the presence of two cases in Namibia. Here are some of SPYL’s concerns in a statement sent to the minister: 1. Visitors entering are not being […]

The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) has, with immediate effect, suspended all international travel by its staff and students as the coronavirus touches down in Namibia. Read the full statement below: In line with the NUST procedures and in support of the statement made by H.E President Hage Geingob on the confirmation of […]

Health Minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said there are no Covid19 cases in Namibia. There were 9 suspected cases of which 8 turned out negative whereas 1 needs to arrive from Ondjokwe to Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP). Two suspected cases were in Rehoboth, two from Luderitz and four from Windhoek Centres for Disease Control and […]

Tourism director Dr Sem Shikongo has said that Namibia and the tourism industry are dealing with fear and hysteria emanating from western countries in relation to the coronavirus. Shikongo said presently there is no cross-sectorial and inter-ministerial coordination to discuss how best to deal with the virus. This as South Africa this week recorded its […]

Three days after the Western Cape health department said it’s not a matter of “if, but “when” the new coronavirus, will be detected in South Africa, the country reported the first-ever case in the sub-Saharan region. A statement put out by the National Institute of Communicable Disease Thursday, a man who is aged 38 tested […]