According to a report in the independent newspaper The Nation, workers downed tools on Monday, demanding to be paid allowance arrears from April.
Workers' representative Kennedy Lowa told the newspaper that the Blantyre city council only paid them a day’s allowance after they staged a march on Thursday to demand their full payment.The isolation centre reportedly has five Covid-19 patients who were left in the care of a matron.
A total of 703 cases were imported infections and 1,042 were locally transmitted, while 73 were still under investigation.Chairman of the presidential task force on Covid-19 John Phuka said 31 of the cases were from Mzuzu, 18 were from Lilongwe and 15 from Blantyre. Four were from Mzimba South and Mchinji, respectively, three were from Mwanza and one was from Karonga.
The celebrations had been planned for Monday, at a ceremony at the Bingu National Stadium along with Chakwera’s inauguration. Principal secretary for the Ministry of Education Justin Saidi said the official date for reopening schools would be set by the government after a careful analysis of the status of the pandemic.
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