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Malawi President Introduces Award for Health Workers Fighting COVID-19

Lameck Masina

   BALAKA, MALAWI - Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has announced the
   introduction of special award for most dedicated health workers in the
   fight against COVID-19. Speaking during his weekly national address
   Saturday night, Chakwera said five health workers nominated by various
   medical associations will be receiving the award every three months for
   their dedication to work. But health workers say awarding only five
   people is not good enough.

   Malawi continues to register an increase in the cases of COVID-19.

   The coronavirus situation update report from the Presidential Taskforce
   Force on COVID-19 shows as of the Saturday evening, Malawi had 4,186
   cases of COVID with 120 deaths.

   The report also said about 100 new cases are being confirmed every day,
   whose transmission is now almost entirely local.

   However, President Chakwera said despite the spike in confirmed
   COVID-19 cases, nearly half of those found with the virus have already
   recovered fully.

   He says "This is largely a credit to our health care workers, who have
   bravely put themselves at risk to test hundreds of people every day,
   giving quarantine guidelines to those who are found positive and
   providing care to those in need of hospitalization."

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