BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—Malawi has for the past 24 hours recorded 10 new cases of coronavirus in Lilongwe, raising the total to 33, health ministry has said.
The 10 cases are all from Kaliyeka in Lilongwe. This comes barely a day after the health ministry also announced six new cases from the Capital City.
The number has almost doubled just five days after High Court Judge Kenyata Nyirenda granted the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) an injunction restraining government to implement lockdown as a measure to contain the novel coronavirus.
HRDC and opposition parties faulted the DPP-led government for failing to announce any tangible measures to alleviate pain of millions of poor Malawians during the lockdown. Reacting, Minister of Information, Civic Education and Communications Technology, Mark Botomani, had warned that the injunction has placed Malawian lives at risk of the pandemic
