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Masiyiwa's solution for the shortage of hospital beds as Africa braces for Coronavirus
On his popular Facebook blog, Strive Masiyiwa proposes a solution to how African countries can address the shortage of critical hospital beds to nurse Coronavirus patients.He writes:"W...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1177 | by Agencies
Govt contradicts 'cheating' Nyaradzo on funerals
FUNERAL service providers nationwide have with immediate effect suspended the removal of bodies from homes and are burying the dead within 24 hours. The funeral parlours are treating all bodie...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 scare at Zimbabwe Police Station
OFFICERS at Bulawayo Central Police Station pressed the panic button when a local returning from South Africa, who is also a fraud suspect, started coughing uncontrollably in the holding cells leading...Published: 5 hrs ago | 433 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ramps up fight against Covid-19
State universities and local firms have increased the production of drugs and materials required in fighting Covid-19, as Government intensified efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus. The ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 124 | 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: 20 hrs ago | 5206 | by Peter Moyo
Corporate Zim unites in the fight against Covid-19
WHILE the coronavirus pandemic has exposed mankind to one of the worst disease outbreaks in modern times, it is also bringing out the best in people.With global giants such as Alibaba, Roche a...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 11:13hrs | 487 | by Robin Mungate
The cost of coronavirus in Africa: What measures can leaders take?
With the novel coronavirus COVID-19 having reached the African continent, countries are getting ready to manage the spread of the virus and ensure that their fragile health systems can cope. Images fr...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:33hrs | 263 | by Dorothy Tembo
Prophets of doom would want to derail fundrasing for health institutions - Ezra Sibanda
Former Radio Zimbabwe presenter and journalist Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has said the prophets of doom would not want the fundraising for the Bulawayo health institutions like Thorngrove Isolation Centre to...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 09:03hrs | 569 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 565 | by Staff reporter
Re-imagining the post-COVID-19 political scene in Zimbabwe
There is no denying that the global pandemic figuratively known as COVID-19 has disrupted our everyday lives. Even our economies have ground to a halt. Our educational institutions have been for...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 199 | by Admire Mare
Zimbabwean returnees to undergo mandatory 21-day isolation
ZIMBABWEANS returning from South Africa via Beitbridge Border Post will undergo a mandatory 21-day quarantine at the defunct Beitbridge Rainbow Hotel while Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo is now ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:35hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda starts crowd funding campaign for Thorngrove Hospital
UNITED KINGDOM based, famed radio personality Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has started a crowd funding campaign for Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital.The campaign has so far raised US$5 600 of the...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:36hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, like China, has fake covid-19 news it's 20 years in jail for truth
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because decades of bad governance. One of the most common manifestation of bad governance is bad policies. This monolithic de facto one-party, Z...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:24hrs | 731 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mthuli Ncube redirects 2020 budget allocations to fight Covid-19
GOVERNMENT has availed $500 million and approved recruitment of 4 200 health workers as part of a wider Covid-19 (coronavirus) mitigation measures, that include redirecting the 2020 budget expenditure...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:56hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Harare Institute of Technology develops ventilator
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has developed a ventilator which it is testing before trials begin, with the potential of making 40 such gadgets per day, while other tertiary institutions are...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:51hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Don't abuse Covid-19 materials: ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) has warned public officials against abuse of Covid-19 donations, saying all corrupt elements will be arrested. In a statement yesterday, ZACC cha...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube redirects 2% levy towards COVID-19 fighting
GOVERNMENT has suspended duty on imported material meant to fight the spread of coronavirus while also redirecting its 2 percent tax levied on electronic transactions towards national programmes meant...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:49hrs | 133 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe lockdown more of entrenchment than fighting #Covid-19
Zimbabwe tonight will go on a countrywide lockdown following a worldwide outbreak of Covid -19 pandemic, an illness caused by the novel human corona virus. The pandemic first emerged in China befo...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:20hrs | 1144 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
COVID-19: Zimbabwe's exemptions to the lockdown
Zimbabwe begins its 21-day lockdown today as it tries to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country, which has limited testing capabilities. The latest update from the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1352 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Zimbabwe begins 21-day lockdown
Zimbabwe begins its 21-day lockdown today as it tries to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country, which has limited testing capabilities. The latest update from the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:33hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa urges African governments to prioritise health workers
Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged African governments to prioritise healthcare workers, particularly now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, where medical practitioners are in the front line....Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:29hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
'Urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni, Thorngrove hospitals'
THE Government has said there is an urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni Medical Centre and Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital as isolation centres for Covid-19 patients in Bulawayo. The bu...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:13hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Critical industries, services exempt from lockdown
AS the national lockdown begins today to avert the spread of Covid-19, Government has said that critical industries and essential services will remain operational to ensure uninterrupted supply of bas...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:12hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Coal mines exempted from lockdown
COAL mining companies are exempted from the 21-day Covid-19 national lock-down which starts today, since their operations relate to generation of electricity. In a statement, Mines and Mining ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:01hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to monitor prices, availability of basic commodities
Government and the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe will monitor prices and availability of basic commodities during the 21-day lockdown period that starts today to protect ordinary people from unjust bus...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
What 21 days of Lockdown will likely Mean for the Zimbabwean Populace
To curb the spread of the coronavirus President Emmerson Mnangagwa imposed a 21 days lockdown of Zimbabwe which is to come into effect on Monday 30, March.The measure has been applauded by man...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 23:21hrs | 3615 | by Prince Njagu
Zimbabweans fear 'starving in their own homes' during lockdown
Zimbabweans braced on Sunday for a three-week lock-down to curb the spread of the coronavirus which has killed one person so far and infected six others, and for many the lockdown means tough times ah...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 19:55hrs | 1496 | by AFP
Mnangagwa's govt seeks US$100m corona war chest
THE government is scrounging around for at least US$100 million to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country.The minister of Health and Child Care, Obadiah Moyo, told a local d...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:43hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Re-equipping hospitals a top priority, says Nigel Chanakira
Prominent banker Nigel Chanakira recently featured on the growing platform In Conversation with Trevor to share the story about his rise in the banking sector from working for the Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1467 | by Staff reporter
Denial, stigma threaten fight against Covid-19
Stigma, peddling of fake news and myths threaten to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the effective handling of the coronavirus pandemic with many people in Zimbabwe still to take the outbreak...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:37hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coronavirus victim died 'alone and scared'
Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help.Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba was "alone and scared", according t...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:21hrs | 2392 | by Shingai Nyoka BBC News
Chamisa preaches Covid-19 unity
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa believes the outbreak of the coronavirus gives Zimbabweans an opportunity to bury their differences as they fight the pandemic.The coronavirus disease, which is also ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:21hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over Mnangagwa's lockdown
The government yesterday moved to exempt certain sectors from the lockdown that begins tomorrow after industry warned that forcing all companies to shut down will ground the fragile economy.Pr...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:19hrs | 8393 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:36hrs | 784 | by Edzai Zvobwo
With simple, fact-informed hygiene measures, Africa can slow COVID-19 spread
UN in Kenya in lockstep with the government to fight the novel coronavirus on all fronts.The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to at least...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 09:01hrs | 234 | by Siddharth Chatterjee
NGOs shut down
CIVIL society organisations, the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (Nango) and Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) have shut their offices down as they intensify efforts t...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:58hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Councillors accused of usurping executive functions
MDC-Alliance councillors in Gweru have been accused of allegedly usurping executive functions disrupting the smooth flow of business at the Town House thereby affecting service delivery.This w...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:42hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa offers fresh support to health-care workers
ZIMBABWE tycoon Strive Masiyiwa is offering renewed support for the country's health-care workers days after services were cut back because of a lack of protective equipment to deal with the coronavir...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
'Health workers turn away patients'
FEAR and ignorance have led healthcare workers at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo to neglect patients that suffer from other ailments, as they now believe that every ill person who walks through th...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Of life in the COVID-19 era
A little over a week ago England wicketkeeper Jos Butler nearly broke the internet when a video of the 29-year-old and wife Louise doing pilates, surfaced.The Englishman was in full Test gear ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:24hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Health workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. Let's protect them
The COVID-19 or the new Corona Virus is different. In this virus we have an enemy which is invisible and sometimes deadly, and the task is harder.About a century ago the Spanish flu pandemic k...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:29hrs | 675 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
'Zanu PF must account for Makamba debacles' - good start but must self-empower too
A lot has been said about the tragic events surrounding the late Zororo Makamba's death but, sadly, most of it has been the usual static noise. So when I heard something coherent, a diamond amongst th...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 14:48hrs | 3267 | by Wilbert Mukori
More Zimbabwe health workers go on strike
MEDICAL personnel at the privately run Avenues Clinic in Harare downed tools yesterday in protest over lack of personal protective equipment in the wake of the deadly coronavirus.There are sus...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:45hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: ZIMBABWE LOCKDOWN!
President Mnangagwa has with effect from Monday declared a total lockdown on the country to contain the spread of Covid-19 which has infected more than 500 000 people worldwide. The pandemic, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ramps up response to Covid-19
STATE OF THE NATION UPDATE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fellow Zimbabweans, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 165 | by ED Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe health workers demand $10 000 a month
Frontline health workers are appealing for a $10 000 risk allowance per month, as they battle Covid-19, which has affected five people in Zimbabwe so far. The proposal is for the allowance to ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Cimas takes measures to protect staff, members from Covid-19
Cimas Medical Aid Society has taken drastic measures to safeguard its staff from possible Covid-19 infection and has issued guidelines to its members on what to do to minimise the risk of infection....Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 10:01hrs | 664 | by Agencies
EcoSure moves to help capacitate doctors and nurses amid COVID-19 pandemic
As Zimbabwe - along with the rest of the world - battles the COVID-19 Corona virus global pandemic, EcoSure has announced plans to immediately support the country's national health delivery system by ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 1166 | by Agencies
Sakunda walks the talk on Covid-19 response
SAKUNDA Holdings will this Friday begin taking delivery of its US$3 million equipment and protective clothing to be used in fighting COVID 19 as the fuel ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1052 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
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