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Malawi has registered one more COVID-19 case, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 18 with 2 deaths, the country's Principal Secretary for Health Dan Namalika announced Tuesday.
The Secretary said the confirmed patient is a Malawian from the capital, Lilongwe, who had recently travelled to the neighbouring Tanzania where COVID-19 cases have also been recorded.
The new COVID-19 case has been recorded five days after the 17th case was recorded on April 16.
According to the Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM) update on the pandemic, eight of the confirmed cases have been imported into the country from across the globe while 10 are through local transmission.
In total, Malawi has so far conducted over 450 tests of COVID-19 from which the 18 cases were confirmed positive, according to the PHIM update.
On April 14 Malawi President Peter Mutharika endorsed a 21-day lockdown which his Health Minister, Jappie Mhango, declared and it was expected to be applied from the midnight of April 18 to the Midnight of May 9.
But the declaration of lockdown sparked sporadic protests in cities and some districts across the country where people conducted demonstrations denouncing the lockdown as non-starter given the high poverty levels in the country.
