Marthina Mutanga
TWELVE Namibian students who have spent the lockdown since March at universities in Zimbabwe will go into quarantine along with 495 other repatriated nationals after they arrived on an Air Namibia humanitarian flight from Harare earlier on Saturday.
The Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Utjiua Mainjangue, during the latest information session at the National COVID-19 Communication Centre announced the arrival of the group of young people at the Hosea Kutako International Airport.
Deputy Minister Muinjangue also announced that no new COVID-19 cases have been reported in the country since Friday.
On Friday the Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, announced that a 23rd person, a woman that recently travelled back to Namibia from Dar es Salaam, tested positive for infection with SARS-CoV2 which causes COVID-19.
The seven new cases reported over the past two weeks brought the people still deemed as active cases up to nine. Of the nine new cases, only a 67-year-old man is deemed as critical. The patient is however in a stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit of a Walvis Bay hospital.
Dr. Muinjangue said that 3 545 people have been tested and that 495 people are still in quarantine facilities countrywide.
She indicated that the repatriation of the students from Zimbabwe was facilitated by the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation in collaboration with the Namibian Diplomatic Mission in Zimbabwe.
