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Malawians Express Reservations on Planned 21-Day Lockdown

Lameck Masina

   BLANTYRE - Malawi's government has put the nation on lockdown to stop
   the spread of the coronavirus. The virus has so far infected 16 people
   in the southern African country and killed two. People providing
   essential services will be exempt from the lockdown, but many worry the
   restrictions on movement and work will put many at risk for food
   shortages.

   Enless Muheziwa has been surviving on income she gets from selling dry
   wood after she exhausted the two bags of maize she harvested this year
   from her garden.

   A single mother of three children is among thousands of farmers
   affected by armyworms this year, in Mulanje district in southern
   Malawi.

   She told VOA via telephone interview that although she appreciates the
   need to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, the lockdown seems too
   severe.

   She said "It will be too difficult for as people in the villages to
   have money at once that can sustain us for three weeks. I survive on
   selling dry wood. So now instead of dying of the disease we will now
   die of hunger."

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