Zambia's health minister has become the second member of the cabinet to contract coronavirus, the government said, according to AFP.

“I wish to inform you that Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya took a Covid test and the result came back positive,” Cabinet Secretary Simon Miti told the media.

Information Minister Dora Siliya had previously announced that she had tested positive. Both ministers have gone into self-isolation and are stable, Miti said.