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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY Dr Hage G. Geingob, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 41ST COVID-19 PUBLIC BRIEFING ON THE NATIONAL RESPONSE MEASURES

15 March 2022

Good afternoon fellow Namibians and welcome to the 41st COVID-19 Public Briefing.

The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving. Recently, the classification of the outbreak has been adjusted by the World Health Organisation from a pandemic to endemic disease. In Namibia, the recovery rate from COVID-19 now stands at 97 percent, with a Case Fatality Rate of 2,5 percent. Statistics further indicate that at 14 March 2022, the active cases stood at 222. As the nation may recall, there was a time during July 2021 when the active cases in the country were much higher, peaking at an all-time high of 27,046 (twenty-seven-thousand-and-forty-six) active infections in the country.

However, the reclassification of the outbreak to endemic should not give us a false sense of security. We must continue to be vigilant and alert to further control the spread and the upsurge in new cases.

The magnitude of the challenge we continue to face is large and we must be ready to mount an effective response. To protect the most vulnerable members of our society and to bolster the capacity of our healthcare system so as to respond to new infections as they occur, we still require strong measures and interventions to reduce the spread of new infections.

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