25 june namib times e-edition

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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6919 FRIDAY 25 JUNE 2021 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net

Walvis Bay municipality urged to end “residencies” at dump site

Residents of Walvis Bay were left furious on Saturday by this thick, black and smelly column of smoke that covered large swaths of the town’s southern parts (pictured right). The smoke was caused by a fire at the tire pit at the Walvis Bay dump site. People residing at the waste disposal site accidentally set the tire alight. “This is becoming unacceptable. People are not allowed to reside at the waste disposal site. Recently we had a fire raging deep below the surface of the waste disposal site, with smelly smoke covering the entire town for several days on end. The fire at the tire pit should be the last”, angry residents told the Namib Times. Adding there is a by-law in place that only allows people on the waste disposal site between sunrise and sunset of every day. “Why don’t the municipality of Walvis Bay and the Namibian Police set feet down on the matter. Any person caught at the waste disposal site after sunset and before sunrise is technically committing an offense of trespassing. The should be arrested and charged”, said one resident who was heavily inconvenienced by both fires in recent weeks. Concluded this resident: “We have laws, regulations and by-laws, but if we don’t enforce it, it leads to incidents such. Not only does it pose a danger to the people residing at the dump site, but it is a public health hazard”.

Namibia’s oxygen supply secured amidst Covid surge The Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) mobilised its membership countrywide in the ongoing fight against the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that has Namibia in its grips. Members responded overwhelmingly and the referral and district hospitals, secondly by NCCI could secure oxygen supplies to the installed bulk oxygen tanks (Katutura Hospital Ministry of Health and Social Services to the Respiratory Unit, the Walvis Bay state hospital tune of 21 tons per week for the next several and Tsumeb state hospital), thirdly by way of oxygen cylinders and fourthly oxygen concenmonths up to end-September. That represents 84 tons of oxygen per month tration devices which are available at public which the Ministry will distribute countrywide health facilities countrywide. to public health facilities treating Covid-19 patients. Dr Kalumbi Shangula, the Minister of Health and Social Services received the pledge from the NCCI earlier this week. Thanks to existing oxygen-generating plants and the additional The Walvis Bay magistrate’s court is without water pledge by the NCCI the danger has been for the past week, after the municipality of Walvis mitigated of the country running out of oxygen Bay cut off the supply due to the Office of the Judiciary in Windhoek not settling the monthly supplies. bill. Dr Shangula explained public health facilities Staff yesterday expressed their frustration with the obtain oxygen in four main ways. Firstly situation, stating it is unhygienic and unbearable. through gas generation systems (ggs) at all

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Only second dose Covid-19 vaccines now administered Only the second dose of the CoviShield Covid-19 vaccines are now administered in Walvis Bay. The town’s available supply of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines have reached a point where there are only enough vaccines left to administer the second dose of people who received their first doses earlier this year. The Sinopharm Covid vaccine remains available for first doses. This confirmed yesterday by the Director of Health in Erongo, Anna Jonas. Residents in Walvis Bay complained in recent days that queues at the vaccination point of the Ministry of Health and Social Services at the Welwitschia Private Hospital is long. Waiting periods are several hours and that people are not social distancing at these vaccination points.

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