Malawi Fires Labour Minister, Arrests Officials Over Misuse of COVID Funds

Fourteen individuals, including senior authorities, have been captured in Malawi and Labor Minister Ken Kandodo has been sacked over abuse of COVID-19 assets, President Lazarus Chakwera and police said on Sunday.

Chakwera said in a broadcast address he had appointed a review into how 6.2 billion Malawian kwacha ($7.95 million) proposed for the country’s Covid reaction program had been spent, and that this had recognized that finances had disappeared, been abused and left inactive.

“As I talk, over twelve people associated with perpetrating the violations uncovered by this review report have been captured,” he said, adding this incorporated a capture at the workplace of the president and bureau.

“There are no untouchable relics,” Chakwera said. “In the event that the finger of proof focuses to you… you are going to jail.”

Kandodo had utilized 613,000 kwacha worth of COVID-19 assets for an unfamiliar outing, Chakwera said, adding that despite the fact that he had since reimbursed the cash his activities implied it was not accessible for its proposed reason when it was required.

Kandodo revealed to Reuters he was stunned by the choice yet declined to remark further until Monday.

Chakwera vowed to check debasement when he got down to business in June a year ago, delivering his Malawi Congress Party once again from resistance without precedent for a very long time.

He said there would be more captures identified with the review, that government workers would be made to reimburse taken assets and that he would commission further reviews into Covid related spending and the utilization of assets in different zones like foundation.

Malawi’s police said a sum of 14 individuals had been captured up until now, including a migration official and 10 people working at area boards.…

After Child Dies, US Regulator Warns About Peloton Treadmill

Wellbeing controllers cautioned individuals with children and pets Saturday to quickly quit utilizing a treadmill made by Peloton after one kid passed on and others were harmed.

The U.S. Customer Product Safety Commission said youngsters and in any event, one pet was pulled, stuck and ensnared under the back roller of the Tread+ treadmill, prompting breaks, scratches, and the passing of one kid.

The wellbeing commission said in a news discharge and in messages that it is aware of 39 “episodes” with the treadmill, including “various” or “handfuls” of youngsters, yet it didn’t indicate various kids. It said most of the episodes brought about wounds, including the one demise.

The commission posted a video on its YouTube page of a kid being pulled under the treadmill.

Of the 39 occurrences, 23 included youngsters, as indicated by New York-based Peloton Interactive Inc.; 15 included items like medication balls, and one incorporated a pet, it said.

Peloton said in a news discharge that the admonition from the wellbeing commission was “erroneous and misdirecting.” It said there’s no motivation to quit utilizing the treadmill as long as kids and pets are avoided it consistently, it is killed when not being used, and a security key is taken out.

Yet, the wellbeing commission said that in at any rate one scene, a youngster was pulled under the treadmill while a parent was running on it, recommending it very well may be hazardous to kids even while a parent is available.

On the off chance that grown-ups need to continue to utilize the treadmill, the commission said, they should utilize it just in a bolted room so kids and pets can’t draw close to it. At the point when not being used, the treadmill ought to be unplugged and the wellbeing key taken out and covered up away. The commission additionally said to keep practice balls and different items from it, in light of the fact that those have been pulled under the treadmill, as well.

Peloton is most popular for its fixed bicycles, yet it presented the treadmill around three years prior and now considers it the Tread+. It costs more than $4,000.

Deals of Peloton hardware have taken off during the pandemic as infection fatigued individuals stay away from exercise centers and exercise at home all things considered. The organization acquired $1 billion in income over the most recent three months of 2020, more than twofold its income from a similar period a year prior.…