The department of health will be switching to a new system to release the country's daily Covid-19 statistics.
When asked why the ages of those who had succumbed to the virus was no longer being released daily, national health ministerial spokesperson Dr Lwazi Manzi revealed that a new system was in the works.
"We are switching to a new system because of the bigger numbers. They [the ages of the deceased] will come back," she said.The department of health has been releasing daily statistics in PDF format since the first case of the virus in March.
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