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Zimbabwean microbiologist dies after contracting Covid-19
A leading microbiologist has died after contracting coronavirus, his university has confirmed.Dr Paul Matewele, a senior lecturer in microbiology immunology at London Metropolitan University, ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1238 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
WATCH: Mnangagwa speaks on increasing lockdown days
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told the nation that he is yet to announce whether he will extend the lockdown at the end of 21 days or not after making consultations. Speaking made the revel...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4702 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lockdown loses momentum
THERE are growing concerns that the ongoing 21-day national lockdown that was imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to combat the spread of coronavirus is running out of steam.This comes as ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 983 | by Staff reporter
Collapsed health sector facilities a sign that govt did not invest in health
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the collapse of health sector facilities in the country is a sign of the government's failure to invest in the health sector for a long time since independence....Published: 17 hrs ago | 250 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa govt's COVID-19 bungling exposed
GOVERNMENT has been accused of bungling and not conducting enough tests to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed three people in Zimbabwe, with doctors demanding an audit of circumsta...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Panic grips Zimbabwe on third COVID-19 death
Panic has gripped Zimbabwe after the coronavirus death toll rose to three from two in less than a week amid concern over the country's preparedness to deal with the pandemic.Government late la...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1032 | by Staff reporter
Panic in Bulawayo after coronavirus death
Zimbabwe has recorded its second coronavirus death in Bulawayo, authorities announced on Tuesday, sparking panic in the second city which has no operational coronavirus care centre.The ministr...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 10:05hrs | 3381 | by Staff reporter
'Dire shortage' of equipment to fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
Medics in Zimbabwe have warned there is a "dire shortage" of ventilators, oxygen tanks, biohazard suits and N95 face masks for healthcare professionals fighting the coronavirus pandemic.In a s...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
WHO warns against easing virus measures too early
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has no blanket recommendation for countries and regions for easing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but urged them not to lift them too earl...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Doctors call for investigations into death of Coronavirus patient
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has called for an urgent investigation surrounding the death of a Bulawayo man who passed away on the 4th of April 2020 after testing posit...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 22:25hrs | 4724 | by Mandla Ndlovu
VAYA provides critical transport relief during the lockdown
The outbreak of COVID-19 Coronavirus has forced many countries, including Zimbabwe, to impose 21 to 30-day restrictive lockdown periods - some even longer...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 17:47hrs | 415 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa wishes Boris Johnson quick recovery
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa joined other world leaders in wishing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson a speedy recovery after the British leader was diagnosed with the coronavirus.PM Johnson (55) tested p...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:22hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 Zim Lockdown: Gendered impacts, implications and effects on women and girls as primary caregivers
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global challenge that affects our lives and our work. Zimbabwe is under a total lockdown for a period of 21 days from Monday 30th March 2020 as a precautionary and m...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:21hrs | 422 | by Alfred Towo
Trevor Noah receives death threats over Bill Gates Coronavirus vaccine
The Daily Social Distancing show host Trevor Noah says he has been receiving death threats after he interviewed Microsoft Founder and philanthropist Bill Gates to discuss coronavirus testing, accelera...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 10:21hrs | 2803 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UK Prime Minister severely sick...needs a ventilator to live
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to the critical unit at St Thomas' Hospital last night as part of his ongoing treatment for Covid-19. He was understood to be conscious when he was moved...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1709 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean doctor tells her story about treating Covid-19 in New York
A Zimbabwean doctor working in New York says she sometimes feels helpless in the fight against Covid-19 - and without a vaccine or cure, says the world should work more to flatten the curve.Dr...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross plans countrywide COVID-19 centres
THE Zimbabwe Red Cross (ZRCS) is considering rolling out COVID-19 isolation centres across the country in a bid to augment government efforts in containing the novel virus, which has wreaked havoc glo...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:07hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Nurses, Chinese NGO clinch COVID-19 deal
THE Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (ZPNU) has clinched a deal with a Chinese-based organisation for the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) to 3 000 healthcare workers in the country who...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:07hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Govt rushes assists COVID-19-hit Ruwa family
THE government on Sunday rushed to donate groceries worth at least $20 000 to a COVID-19-hit Ruwa family members after the media exposed their neglect by the State.Saul Sakudya, who tested pos...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:05hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors sue over Covid-19 exposure
ZIMBABWE'S 1 500 doctors working at public health institutions are exposed to the killer coronavirus after government failed to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and have sued to force autho...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
'I'm proud of your discipline during lockdown' said Mnangagwa - contrarily 'Soldiers go crush our enemies!'
"Wishing a blessed Sunday to my brothers and sisters in lockdown. I am proud of the way you have responded to this challenging situation, with discipline, commitment, and spirit. The road is long, but...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:00hrs | 565 | by Nomusa Garikai
Price for NOT testing, 10%+ (1.5 m), instead <1%, Zimbabweans will die from covid-19
"Test! Test! Test"! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised all nations ever since it became clear that the corona virus was very contagious and was spreading. WHO declared covid-19 a pandemic...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 23:13hrs | 1931 | by Wilbert Mukori
Victims count the cost of fake hand sanitisers
CROOKED traders are bilking consumers by selling fake hand sanitisers, raising fears cheated members of the public might be exposed to the coronavirus.The global outbreak of Covid-19 has led t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Supermarkets turn away customers with high body temperature
SOME supermarkets in Bulawayo have started screening their customers for possible coronavirus infection with those whose temperatures are higher than 37 degrees celsius being denied entry.Reta...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1001 | by newzimbabwe
'Zimbabwe police officers risk spreading COVID-19'
POLICE have been accused of aiding the spread of the deadly COVID-19 by patrolling streets without protective clothing and bundling those defaulting on the 21-day lockdown in crammed trucks where soci...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Prayer or science in the face of COVID-19
"If churches are being shut down for the purpose of saving lives. Was there a need for them in the first place? Even church pastors are waiting for the coronavirus to clear so they can continue healin...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:27hrs | 923 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Africans are not human guinea pigs
While the whole world really confronts the Codiv-19 virus and having lost already thousands of people in Asia, in Europe and in America, preci...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1645 | by Iphithule Thembani Maphosa
The year Spanish Influenza attacked Rhodesia
The Spanish Flu epidemic struck Rhodesia in early October, 1918, being introduced into the country by passengers arriving from South Africa by train. It spread quickly in all the urban centres before ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:17hrs | 821 | by Jonathan Waters
Health workers get allowances raise
On-call, night duty and standby allowances for public sector health workers have been raised by between 60 percent and 100 percent with effect from January, with the Covid-19 risk allowances, in three...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Unfolding challenges of Muteswa's domestic abuse: Trials & tribulations of single women in Zimbabwe and the law of Karma!
What Chantelle Muteswa is currently going through and the amount of emotional challenges and humiliations she must cope with is just unimaginable by common sense. In her case, common sense is no longe...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1751 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Coronavirus vaccines should be tested on poor Africans'
A discussion between two top French doctors on live TV left viewers horrified when they proposed that Africa should become a giant laboratory for coronavirus vaccines testing because the continent lac...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 15:44hrs | 2431 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's movement offers solution to fighting Coronavirus
Tyson Wabantu Movement has issued a statement urging the government of the day to implement tough measures in fighting the dreaded Wuhan virus that seen positive cases rise to nine in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:28hrs | 2440 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Indian twins named 'Corona' and 'Covid'
The pandemic caused by a new virus may have brought the world to its knees, but that has not deterred a couple in Chhattisgarh to name their newborn twins as ‘Corona' and ‘Covid', ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Wilkins reopens after refurbishment
Zimbabwe's main COVID-19 isolation and treatment centre, Wilkins Hospital, will reopen its doors to the public at the weekend following a US$500 000 upgrade initiated by the Chinese business community...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors raise alarm over COVID-19 tests
LOCAL medical doctors have expressed concern over the low numbers of people being tested for the deadly coronavirus in the country as the United Nations (UN) yesterday warned that Africa could lose mi...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Illegitimate Mnangagwa, illegitimate Chamisa: Country legit?
BY now, the entire nation is aware of the folly of appointing a retired club DJ to be the man in charge of a whole country's healthcare system.It should have been obvious to any self-respecting leader...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 3680 | by Muckraker
Nurses desert Wilkins
NURSES at the country's main Covid-19 isolation centre, Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital, are resigning as morale hits rock bottom in the crucial health sector, which is in the frontline of Zimbab...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Beware the Ides of March coronavirus is here
MANY pandemics and epidemics have occurred throughout the history of mankind, from biblical times to date. We have lived to tell the tale in the Aids pandemic and our cousins in the Congo and in West ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 260 | by Godfrey Mungwadzi Specialist physician
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 249 | by Financial Mail
Global COVID-19 cases top 1 million
The coronavirus pandemic has passed its landmark moment, as over one million people worldwide have tested positive for the disease, according to figures from multiple sources.The total number ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1339 | by Staff reporter
US snatches up France-bound masks
The U.S. allegedly snatched a planeload of 60 million Chinese-made medical masks that were initially intended for France, a French official said.The U.S. seized the equipment minutes before th...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2075 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1006 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
14 doctors offer free consultations
FOURTEEN Zimbabwean doctors are offering free consultations over the phone during the 21-day lockdown period to minimise the movement of people. The doctors include cardiologists, gynaecologis...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:18hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Muslim minority doctors first to die on front line of UK COVID-19 pandemic
London, United Kingdom - The United Kingdom is paying tribute to the first doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic who have died after contracting COVID-19.All four men - Alfa S...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 21:21hrs | 2417 | by Al Jazeera News
UK coronavirus deaths jump by 563, the HIGHEST daily increase so far
Daily coronavirus-related deaths have reached an all-time high in the UK - 563 - to take the total number of fatalities to 2,352, according to new figures published by the Department of Health and Soc...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
All hopes are now on Kasukuwere to carry the cross
Zimbabwe needs a Saviour now, more than ever. Many opposition characters and trusted leaders are crumbling under pressure and selling out, the masses are dejected and alone. Nelson Chamisa is em...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 16:37hrs | 6603 | by Peter Moyo
Government speaks on reports that Mnangagwa has contracted Coronavirus
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has refuted reports circulating on some online media publications that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has contracted the deadly coronavirus. The repo...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 16:25hrs | 6004 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Where are the traditional healers and prophets at this time of corona virus?
It is with no doubt that Covid 19 substantially contributes to the burden of disease and health care provision in sub-Saharan Africa, where traditional healers play a major role in care, due to both t...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 09:54hrs | 560 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Students stand in for striking nurses
STUDENT nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have been commandeered to replace nurses who went on strike last week demanding COVID-19 risk allowances and personal protective equipment."Ou...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:52hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba feels safe
MARVELOUS Nakamba says he is well amid reports that the Warriors and Aston Villa midfielder could have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus.The midfielder could have been expos...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
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