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At least five schools have temporarily closed after 58 teachers and 188 learners and 11 institutional workers tested positive for Covid-19 at various schools in the Erongo region.

The Rundu Intermediate Hospital is getting overwhelmed as the hospital’s Covid-19 admissions continue to increase. 

The Namibia Medicines Regulatory Council (NMRC) registrar of medicines, Johannes Gaeseb, has reiterated the council’s stance that it has not received an application for the use of Ivermectin-related medicines supported by sufficient scientific evidence to advocate its use in preventing or treating Covid-19.

The State has added three more suspects to the matter in which former magistrate Walter ‘Rooies’ Mostert is charged by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) with 29 criminal charges.

The effects of the Covid-19 on the local economy has negatively impacted the completion of developmental projects in Omusati, governor Erginus Endjala said in his state of the regions address on Friday.

Former acting judge and long-serving regional magistrate Alexis Helena Diergaardt has died after battling Covid-19. Diergaardt succumbed to the deadly virus on Saturday in a local hospital. 

The Omusati region has during the last financial year seen an alarming increase in cases of assault, stock theft and break-ins, governor Erginus Endjala revealed.

Six children drowned near the Chobe River when the boat they were travelling in capsized few minutes after leaving the Nakabolelwa shore. 

​​​​​​​Lavinia Ndinangoye (32) is a rheumatic heart disease RHD ambassador and a serving board member of Global ARCH, an international organisation that advocates for people living with heart conditions.

Relative ease, overflowing confidence and glaring determination are some of the characteristics that resembled the breathtaking performances of two of Namibia’s foremost sprinters, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, who took Spain and Poland by storm over the weekend.