The country has in the last 24 hours recorded seven (7) COVID-19 related deaths and 1,356 new cases out of 4,449 tests conducted giving a 40% overall positivity. Giving a Covid-19 update this morning, Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo says all the seven deaths recorded were among the unvaccinated aged between 23 and 90. Ms Masebo says Lusaka recorded 4 ...

GEARS Initiative Zambia has noted the need to interrogate the appointment of Patriotic Front Vice president, Given Lubinda, to act as party president following the stepping down of Former President Edgar Lungu as Party president. GEARS Executive Director Mcdonald Chipenzi says the appointment of Mr. Lubinda is wrong and goes against the PF constitution which states in Article 53 sub ...

Government has learnt with deep sorrow the death of four people in Choma’s Mbabala area of Southern Province, following flash floods and six others who died in a head-on collision involving two motor vehicles on the great east road in Chongwe district. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Iinister of Information and Media and Chief Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda has ...

Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has asked Zambia’s bilateral creditors to as soon as possible form a Creditor Committee that will formally evaluate the country’s debt treatment request with the objective of providing financing assurances to the IMF Board of Directors as soon as practicable. Speaking during a recent virtual gathering of bilateral creditors, Dr Musokotwane stressed the ...

Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo says the earmarked recruitment of 11,200 health personnel should be implemented with immediate effect to mitigate the challenge of shortage of manpower in health facilities in the wake of the fourth wave of covid-19. Mrs. Masebo says her ministry has allowed the recruitment process to begin immediately with other necessary formalities to be done later ...

The matter in which Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Zimba has sued minister of health Sylvia Masebo in the Lusaka high court for directing that only vaccinated people against the covid-19 virus should be allowed access to government buildings has failed to take off following the absence of other parties to the case. in this matter Kelvin Zimba of messers mosha and ...

The Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) has demanded that the UPND administration leaves street vendors alone until acceptable alternatives are found for them to vacate their trading sites. Pf Acting Secretary General Nickson Chilangwa has said in a statement obtained by q-news that the former ruling party is disturbed by government’s decision to unceremoniously remove the vendors from the streets. Mr. ...

 President Hakainde Hichilema says his new dawn administration is working extremely hard and in a manner that is versatile to change the prevailing economic situation in the country. Speaking in Kafue today when he graced the pass out parade of police officers at the Geoffrey Mukuma Paramilitary Training facility popularly known as Sondela, president Hichilema says it does not matter ...

Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo has announced that the ministry will begin administering covid-19 booster vaccines from Monday, 27th December, 2021. Speaking during the covid-19 update in Lusaka todays Ms Masebo says the development is part of the resolutions arrived at following a meeting by the council of ministers on disaster management to deliberate on the prevailing covid situation and ...

Dziwa Science and Technology Trust (DSAT) Founder and Executive Director Veronica Mwaba has called for the establishment of a university of science and technology in the country. Mrs Mwaba says the university should offer 100% bursary for science champions regardless of their standing in society. She says the science agenda should be practical to solve social economic challenges. Ms. Mwaba ...