-The Erongo Governor has offered an escort to the family that protested yesterday during his weekly COVID-19 briefing, demanding that the authorities grant them permission to leave Erongo Region to bury their mother in Otjiwarongo.

-The process of identifying houses that are not occupied to be used for the relocation of residents at Swakopmund and Walvis Bay has been completed.

-School health policies that have been in place since independence, have not been implemented at some schools making it difficult to adjust and effect preventative measures on COVID-19.

-Private doctors in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay have come on board and offered their support and services for free to assist in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic that is fast spreading at the coastal towns.

-Government has handed over a three-bedroom house to a pioneer of the national liberation struggle at Oshakati in the Oshana Region.

-The SADC Parliamentary Forum says it has observed an alarming increase of sexual gender-based violence (GBV) in some countries under lockdown as a result of COVID-19.

-Some regional governors have expressed dissatisfaction with a lack of support from some ministries in the coordination of developmental projects and programmes at the regional level.

-A family of 14 from Mulemba Village in the Kavango West Region is pleading for food after all its mahangu harvest burnt to ashes.

-The Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed an earthquake approximately 85 kilometres south of Karibib, in the early hours of Thursday.

-The Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) country representative Farayi Zimudzi is urging farmers in the //Kharas Region to embrace new farming technologies that are environmentally friendly and yields better results.