COVID-19 SECOND WAVE IN MALAWI FORCES GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES FOR THREE WEEKS
January 3rd, 2021
Malawi universities and colleges have been closed for three weeks from Monday January 18, following a second wave of Covid-19 that has taken a heavy toll, with daily reports of increasing infections and deaths.
This includes two cabinet ministers who died earlier this month - public works minister Sidik Mia and local government minister Lingson Belekanyama.
The pandemic has been ripping through universities and colleges that were reopened during September after being closed under a national lockdown since Covid-19 hit the country last March.
Mzuzu University, ...
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