In the past 48 hours, Malawi has registered 29 new COVID-19 cases, no new recoveries, and no new deaths.

Of the new cases, 12 are from Lilongwe of which 9 are contacts of two confirmed cases in Area 6 and Chiwazeni village in Nkhoma, the other new case has travel history and the other one is a resident of Area 36 and is still under investigation to establish infection source.

Four of the cases were screened at the Mwanza border as they were returning from South Africa, these cases are residents of Mangochi, Njolomole in Ntcheu, Jekete village in Chiradzulu (this is a first confirmed case in Chiradzulu) and the other one is still being investigated to determine the home district.

The other two new cases are from Nchalo in Chikwawa; one is a contact of a confirmed case and the other one is still being investigated.

Zomba has also registered one new case who is a contact of a confirmed case.

Eleven new cases have been recorded in Blantyre, out of these 7 cases are from one family based in Kachere, the index case (among the 7) arrived in the country from South Africa two weeks ago.

The other two cases are a truck driver and his primary contact, resident in Lunzu and Machinjiri, respectively.

The other cmfirmed case lives in Lunzu and had traveled to South Africa and the last Blantyre case is a resident of Chilomoni township that was identified at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital’s outpatient department and is currently stable under institutional isolation.

Cumulatively, Malawi has recorded 438 cases including four deaths.

Of these cases, 351 are imported infections and 76 are locally transmitted while 11 are still under investigation.

Fifty-five of the total cases have now recovered bringing the total number of active cases to 379.

The average age of the cases is 31 years, the youngest case is aged 1 year, the oldest is 75 years and 66% are male.

The country has so far conducted 6423 COVID-19 tests in 20 COVID-19 testing sites.