UNICEF Malawi COVID-19 Situation Report 14 July

Highlights

• Malawi is now the second country in the SADC region with the highest number of COVID-19 cases next to South Africa. As of 12 July, the number of COVID-19 fatalities increased by 63 per cent from 19 in the past week to 38.
• On 6 July 2020, the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 announced that schools will not reopen on 13 July 2020, as previously suggested. This is due to the increased number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
•  Since the beginning of the COVID-19 response, UNICEF has supported the installation of 66 latrines at emergency treatment units, hospitals, returnee holding centres and border posts in Blantyre, Mangochi, Mzuzu, Karonga, Mchinji, Mwanza, and Machinga districts as part of the infection prevention and control measures.
•  A total of 292 returnees from South Africa at Machinga Teachers Training College returnee holding centre benefited from Psychological First Aid in the period of 9 to 10 July.