Collen Muleke, the National Civil Registration Regional Coordinator at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security (MHAISS) said barriers to civil registration due to COVID-19 include outreach programmes being inactive during the pandemic. Due to schools being closed outreach programmes are impossible and learners will, therefore, have to visit (MHAI) offices. Muleke said the (MHAISS) will intensify outreach programmes as soon as regulations are lifted. E-birth is a web-based notification process that allows the (MHAISS) office to register births but the law requires face to face representation for registrations to take place. There have been collaborative agreements with the National Statistics Agency (NSA) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) so it is integrated at Hospitals and registration is easy. Furthermore, Muleke said duplicate birth certificates are the most needed. He said (MHAISS) has to improve public advocacy campaigns in caring for national documents. The Death registration process has prioritised counters at all 14 regions of MHAISS offices for the mourning public to be helped faster. MHAISS Introduced outreach programs for marginalised communities and urged constituency councillors to compile and share applicants information with the MHAISS office to be able to disperse the outreach programmes. Muleke said In Namibia capturing of fingerprints is done manually thus its a risky procedure in spreading COVID-19. The fingerprinting procedure defies social distancing. Muleke urged the public to collect their identity documents. He was speaking at the COVID-19 Communication Centre this morning.