Prime Minister Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini has announced that the first batch of Government COVID-19 payment for laid-off workers begins today (July 10, 2020) with 1949 recipients.
“Subsequent payments will be made every Friday until the current figure of laid off employees is exhausted,” he said.
On 14 March, the country’s first case of COVID-19 was confirmed. A 33-year-old woman, who returned from the United States at the end of February and then travelled to Lesotho before returning home to Eswatini, entered isolation.
In April, Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini, warned that the health system in the country formerly known as Swaziland would struggle with an upsurge of infections due to inadequate resources.
The small kingdom has recorded 1,138 coronavirus cases so far, with 14 deaths and 588 recoveries, according to Africa CDC.
The total number of infections across the continent is now over 541,000, with more than 12,400 deaths and almost 265,000 recoveries, according to Africa CDC.
Across the world, COVID-19 has claimed over 555,000 lives in 188 countries and regions since emerging in China last December.
Over 12.2 million cases have been reported worldwide, with the US, Brazil, India and Russia currently the worst-hit countries, according to figures compiled by the US’ Johns Hopkins University.
The data shows more than half of all patients worldwide over 6.75 million have recovered so far.
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