Malawi registers 123 new Covid-19 cases with 47 new recoveries

Malawi has registered 123 new COVID-19 cases, 47 new recoveries, and 2 new deaths.

The 2 new deaths are from Blantyre.

All new case are locally transmitted infections, 59 of these are from Lilongwe, 16 eachfrom Blantyre and Zomba, 12 from Karonga, 4 from Salima, 3 each from Mzimba North and Nkhata Bay, two from Rumphi, and 1 each from Balaka, Chiradzulu, De

dza, Likoma, Mangochi, Mchinji, Mzimba North, and Ntcheu.

Cumulatively, Malawi has recorded 3,981 cases including 109 deaths.

Of these cases, 983 are imported infections and 2,998 are locally transmitted. Cumulatively, 1,807
cases have now recovered bringing the total number of active cases to 2,065.

The average age of the cases is 36 years, the youngest case is aged 1 month, the oldest is 93 years and 66.6% are male.

The country has so far conducted 29,599 COVID-19 tests in 39 COVID-19 testing sites.