BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The Malawi courts including High and Supreme Court of Appeal have asked all court users and stakeholders to wear face masks at all times around court premises starting from Thursday July 2, 2020.

This has been disclosed in a statement signed by Agnes Patemba, register of high court and supreme court of appeal.

Patemba has asked all parties and court users to to keep their nose and mouth completely covered by the face masks at all times without lowering it when speaking or coughing to protect all court users.

The office of the register has also reminded all court users to wash hands regularly with soap or use alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing 65% alcohol, avoid shaking hands and to always observe social distance of at least 1.5 metres.

The courts have also said that court registries will limit number of court users and time of visit and has reminded all users to follow cough etiquettes that were put in place at all times.

As of July 2, 2020 Malawi had 1402 Covid-19 cases with 16 deaths.