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The Medical for Quality Healthcare in Zambia-MQHZ has recommended and supported the introduction of the Pfizer’s covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid for patients with milder forms of the disease who were still at a high risk of hospitalization. The organization says  if government through the Ministry of Health introduced Paxlovid in the country, it will be a satisfying move by the ...

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says Zambia must seriously signal stability in her policy regimes to the international community in order to benefit from foreign investment. Mr Kanyama says the policies must not be driven by any political change but must be imbedded in the national constitution making it difficult to be changed easily by anyone. He states that this would show ...

A tear gas canister detonated at the Lusaka water and sanitation company in Lusaka’s lilanda compound. The offices are guarded by police officers.  Deputy Police Public Relations Officer Danny Mwale who has confirmed the development today says the incident occurred yesterday at around 10:30 hours in lilanda compound. Mr. Mwale explains that police preliminary investigations revealed that the canister is ...

Ministry of tourism has dismissed a video circulating on social media suggesting that one of the stray lions in Kafue has been killed. Speaking in a telephone interview with Q-news, Ministry of tourism public relations officer, Sakabilo Kalembwe says wildlife and ZAF officers are still on the ground looking for the stray lions. Mr. Kalembwe has since advised residents of Kafue ...

Timber producers association of Zambia [TPAZ] has called on ministry of green economy and environment to extend the deadline for application for forest concession licenses, which was recently advertised. Association president Charles Masange says the application period given is too short and timber producers cannot meet all the requirements that have been listed in the advert within 30 days, unless ...

Minister of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Elias Mubanga says the New Dawn government is aware of the challenge of access to affordable finance by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)and is not sitting idle over the matter. Mr. Mubanga says government through his ministry has already asked lending institutions to come up with various packages tailored for SMEs. The Minister ...

Department of National Parks And Wildlife Officers are hunting for the loose lion that was spotted in Kafue area last evening. Ministry of Tourism and Arts Public Relations Officer, Sakabilo Kalembwe has confirmed that the Department of National Park and Wildlife is in receipt of information that a lone lion has been spotted in Kafue area and is posing a ...

Economic and Equity party president Chilufya Tayali has charged that there is no difference between how the previous regime and the current regime is governing the country. Speaking in an interview with q news, Mr. Tayali notes that the opposition political parties are currently intimidated by the government and party officials when they want to offer proper checks and balances ...

The ruling United Party for National Development in Lusaka Province has challenged Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lillian Siyuni to resign on moral ground. Speaking during a press briefing today, UPND Lusaka Province Chairperson Obvious Mwaliteta has accused the DPP of siding with PF officials in her operations by entering nolle prosequis in cases involving PF officials while she has ...

Three Civil Society Organizations have written to the Attorney General demanding that all public officials subject to the Parliamentary and Ministerial Code of Conduct comply fully with all the requirements of section 10 within 14 days. Section 10 (2) of the code of conduct states that an officer shall within thirty days after his appointment; and within thirty days after ...