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Nthatuoa Koeshe RURAL masses must protect themselves against the looming third wave of Covid-19 during the upcoming Easter holidays by reporting any signs and symptoms to the authorities. This will help fight the killer disease which has so far infected 10 535 and killed 309 people according to the latest National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC) statistics. […]
Limpho Sello THE National Reference Laboratory (NRL) has resumed testing for Covid-19 after securing testing consumables which will last until Mach next year. Health minister Motlatsi Maqelepo on Wednesday said that the unavailability of testing consumables in the last one month caused serious inconveniences for the public who were forced to rely on private […]
NACOSEC must be realistic Share Moorosi Tsiane THE Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) last week accused the National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC) of discriminating sports by crafting impractical Covid-19 regulations as a prerequisite for the resumption of sports activities. This follows Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro’s announcement last week that it was now safe for the return of sports after the lifting of the Covid-19-induced suspension in January 2021. However, Majoro said for sports to return, teams and associations must ensure that athletes are kept in restricted camps until the end...
……Rolling back Covid-19….. MASERU-SOME nurse hired by the Ministry of Health to help fight Covid-19 late last year and early this year say they have not been paid. The government hired 136 nurses in September last year. Each was to supposed to earn a gross salary of M12 500, according to the government salary payment schedule. But six months later some of them are yet to receive their dues. “It is now March and we have not received even a cent,” said one of the nurses who requested anonymity. “We are trained nurses and we were hoping that the government would have processed our sa...
Staff Reporter THE National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC) will on Thursday announce the roll-out plan for Covid-19 vaccination programme, NACOSEC risk communications manager Baroane Phenethi has said. Mr Phenethi yesterday said they were in the process of drafting the roll-out plan before they start vaccinating the population with the first batch of 36 000 AstraZeneca […]