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 SOME Lusaka minibus drivers at City Market were yesterday left with serious injuries after 10 unruly people ran smoke causing damages to 25 buses. According to police deputy spokesperson Danny Mwale said five suspects have since been apprehended in connection with the fracas. Mr Mwale said the incident started when group of 10 men approached […]

By NATION REPORTER 

SHEBBY Chilekwa has appealed his 25-year sentence meted him for allegedly shooting to death Lawrence Banda, the UPND cadre in 2019 after he was convicted on Wednesday.

Mongu High Court Judge Charles Zulu sentenced Mr Chilekwa to 25 years imprisonment after the State entered a nolle prosequi in the matter for Mumbi Phiri, the former Patriotic Front (PF) deputy secretary general.

Mr Chilekwa’s lawyers from Makebi Zulu Advocates contend that it was unsafe to convict Chilekwa as the body of evidence presented was not credible and witnesses were not reliable.

In his appeal, Mr Chilekwa contend that the trial court erred in law and fact when it failed to consider the prosecution witnesses in cross examination that was favourable to the appellant.

Mr Chilekwa has argued that the trial court erred in law and fact when he concluded the appellant was elusive against the weight of the evidence on record.

Meanwhile Zambia Republican Party (ZRP) president Wright Musoma has said Mr Chilekwa needed to take heart because the suffering would come to an end sooner rather than later.

He said it was clear that Mr Chilekwa was being targeted because he was a close associate of former President Edgar Lungu.

All prominent migrant groups in the Netherlands are suffering more from long-COVID than the native Dutch population, research from Amsterdam UMC has found. The study, published today, in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe, shows that in some groups the rates of long-COVID are up to 50% higher than in the Dutch population. This results in many migrant groups “suffering in silence,” in the words of senior author Professor Charles Agyemang.

A new Imperial College London-led study provides the first empirical evidence for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via people’s hands and frequently touched household surfaces.

Black and Hispanic patients with severe allergies are less likely to get a common treatment, allergen immunotherapy, compared to white patients, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. In a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, they said identifying the causes, which could include Black and Hispanic patients being less likely than white patients to be referred to an allergist and the difficulty accessing treatment due to time and other resource constraints, and developing solutions for this health disparity, could help patients get relief from symptoms, including runny nose, congestion, post-nasal drip, sinus pain and itchy and watery eyes.

Nearly a quarter of secondary school learners in Wales reported having very high levels of mental health symptoms in the years following COVID-19, according to the latest report from the School Health Research Network (SHRN) at Cardiff University.

About 39% of nurses in the state of Michigan say they intend to leave their jobs in the next year, according to a University of Michigan study.

Firearm injury is now the leading cause of death among U.S. children and adolescents. As its toll grows, researchers have focused on stopping violence in the moments before it happens. But new research led by the University of Washington suggests that interventions made earlier in young people’s lives may reduce the chances of it happening at all.

Heat is a quiet killer. Unlike most natural disasters, which can leave visible damage across an entire region, a heat wave’s effects on human health can be difficult to track. So after record high temperatures struck the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 2021, official estimates included only people killed directly by heat exposure.

A rapid spike in cases of a potentially deadly, drug-resistant fungus has concerned public health officials across the nation. But a team of Southern Nevada researchers hope their new study applying wastewater surveillance can help health officials get a step ahead of this emerging global public health threat.