It's hard to imagine that anything could knock COVID-19 off the top of the news headlines. Last week, however, awful news from Minneapolis achieved this, for all the wrong reasons. The death of George Floyd, apparently at the hands of State Police, seems all the [...]
It is a huge relief to see great progress being made in many countries to curb the COVID-19 crisis. Many European nations are starting to re-open their economies and return to something that resembles the life that we enjoyed before COVID-19. Of course, we all [...]
The world's COVID experiences are changing on an almost daily basis; while Australia and New Zealand emerge from lockdown with an incredible record of virus containment and Europe starts to see the end of its awful peaks of deaths, Zambia's cases increase at an erratic [...]
Zambia's COVID-19 experience continues. As the country develops the capability to test suspects, many more cases are being discovered. In a test of c. 350 people in Nakonde, the northern border post with Tanzania, nearly half were found to be positive for COVID-19.... This extreme [...]
Thank you to so many of you who have written to me after reading my weekly wildlife update blogs. It's clear that this virtual window into the Luangwa Valley is restorative for many people who are in lockdown across the world. Being able to go [...]
Zambia's coronavirus journey continues steadily. We are approaching 100 confirmed cases, all of which are in the central Lusaka area of the country. There is little movement of people around the country at this time and social distancing is still in place, though Government took [...]
Life in South Luangwa continues to be a blend of the normal and the unprecedented; while there is no lock-down yet, and cases of COVID remain only in the Lusaka area, there are also no visitors whatsoever to the area. So the economy of the [...]
Greetings from the South Luangwa. I hope you are all safe, keeping healthy and surviving whatever form of social isolation is being enforced. We are voluntarily self-isolating but have the extraordinary luxury of being able to continue accessing the National Park. Being just 3 minutes [...]
Zambia is encouraging social distancing, in line with most other countries across the world. We are not yet facing lock-down since cases appear to be very low and not increasing....we sincerely hope that this is not due to under-reporting or mis-representation. However, as family, we [...]
A penny for the number of times that the word "unprecedented" has been used in recent weeks....! However, current global circumstances certainly justify that description; there is no blueprint, no prior experience to draw on (except for the recent experiences of other nations) and certainly [...]
