Tag: covid19
Namibia ends lockdown on 4 May, enforces facemasks
Namibia will end the nationwide lockdown on 4 May 2020 but will make the wearing of facemasks outside the home mandatory. In an address to the nation on Thursday, President Hage Geigon said that although it is very important to…
SSC launches the employment and salary protection scheme
Namibia Finance minister Ipumbu Shiimi together with the Social Security chief executive Milka Mungunda launched the National Employment and Salary Protection Scheme for Covid-19 on Monday in Windhoek. Mungunda said before this launch, they considered the following: Assessment of comparative…
Namibia locked into 10 zones and 69 checkpoints
Home affairs minister Farns Kapofi said Namibia’s 14 regions have been clustered into 10 zones, comprising 69 lockdown points between zones, to give impetus to the countrywide lockdown as indicated in the Deployment Plan. The lockdown checkpoints will be established…
Teachers should be at schools on 6 May – education minister
Education minister Anna Nghipondoka said teachers are expected to be “physically” at schools 6 May 2020 although learners will stay home until further notice because some schools have no water. She said the ministry is not starting from scratch with…
Kashikola says life won’t be the same under lockdown
Home affairs deputy minister Daniel Kashikola said the life during the lockdown will not be the same because the nature of the state of emergency means certain rights will be taken away. Kashikola, who spoke during Friday’s Covid-19 morning session…
Finance ministry pays out N$110m in Covid-19 grants
The finance ministry paid out more than N$110 million to 146 974 Namibians on Wednesday who applied for the Emergency Income Grant. Tonateni Shindhudhu, the finance ministry spokesperson said the payments were supposed to have been done on Tuesday this…
Covid-19: Public service wage bill needs serious attention – PM
The Namibian economy is expected to implode further as all sectors take a blow from the Covid-19 pandemic, and fears have surfaced over the future jobs of civil servants. The pandemic and lockdowns will further put a burden on the…
COVID-19 – 109 released from supervised quarantine
Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said of the 333 samples tested,16 were positive and the people were placed under quarantine with one hospitalised. Dr Shangula said 109 were released from the supervised quarantine while 216 still remain. The government, Dr…
GOVT LAUNCHES COVID-19 EMERGENCY INCOME GRANT
Finance minister Ipumbu Shiimi has launched the N$562m Emergency Income Grant (EIG), a once-off payment of N$750 in cash grant per qualifying person, on the basis of a set of eligibility criteria. This is estimated to benefit up to 739,000…
COVID-19 cases in Namibia rise to 13
Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said Namibia now has 13 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Addressing the nation from State House on Wednesday in Windhoek, Dr Shanguka said there were 306 suspected. Of these cases, he said, 150 were tested at the…