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LIST: Top 50 African Trailblazers Awards nominees released
The inaugural Afri50 Trailblazer Awards will take place on May 1, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, coinciding with Workers Day. The event will recognize 50 African trailblazers who have made a sig...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:44hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbawean scientist is saluted in Time's 100 influential persons
A ZIMBABWEAN scientist credited with the discovery of the Covid-19 Omicron variant has been recognised as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.Time 100 is a yearly l...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:45hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Govt raises mandatory fuel blending to E20
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced mandatory blending of fuel with ethanol, increasing it from E-10 to E-20, a move which could set it on a collision course with motorists.This was announced at a ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Flu bug not linked to coronavirus'
AS Zimbabwe is entering the Southern Hemisphere's colder winter months there is an increase in cases of flu but health authorities yesterday said the bug is not linked to the coronavirus.Howev...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Speculation rife as Zimbabwe records spike in cases of rare flu
Genomic sequencing is needed to avoid speculation of a new variant following a spike in rare flu cases in Zimbabwe, health experts have said.This comes as Zimbabwe is recording an increase in ...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
WHO red flags Zimbabwe flu bug
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official has red-flagged Zimbabwe over the possibility of a new variant circulating in the country following the outbreak of an unexplained flu bug.Health...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa extends lockdown measures
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday extended the Covid-19 level two national lockdown by a further two weeks, citing the a rapid rise in infections driven by the new Omicron variant, and moderately tighteni...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Vigilance paramount as 4th wave sweeps
ALL indications are that we are faced with a fourth and possibly deadly wave of the Covid-19 with disastrous consequences for both the national economy and human life. Official statistics point to a s...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Quarantine details revealed, fourth wave confirmed
As it was confirmed that Zimbabwe is now in the midst of the fourth Covid-19 wave fuelled by the Omicron variant, details were given yesterday of how the new compulsory 10-day quarantine for all retur...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean born scientist who helped identify Omicron slams travel bans
THE Botswana scientist who may well have discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus says he has been on a roller-coaster of emotions, with the pride of accomplishment followed by dismay over th...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Omicron hits Zimbabwe
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga yesterday confirmed that the country had recorded its first case of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, raising fears of a hard lockdown in the c...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges adherence to WHO protocols
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is still undertaking some genomic sequencing to ascertain the presence or absence of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the country.Vice President and...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt imposes mandatory quarantine
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday imposed mandatory quarantine for returning citizens and foreigners entering the country and tightened lockdown measures amid concern over the new COVID-19 Omicro...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Covid hits Masvingo teachers' college
THE Masvingo provincial Covid-19 taskforce has, together with ministry of Health and Child Care, launched investigations to establish a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases at Masvingo Teachers College....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
New Covid-19 variant: Zimbabwe to decide on injiva
THE Government has said it is monitoring the new Covid-19 variant that has been detected in South Africa and Botswana with a view of coming up with a way of controlling the spread of the virus ahead o...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for new Covid-19 variant
The GOVERNMENT has set in motion an intensive Covid-19 mass vaccination blitz to thwart the looming threat of the recently discovered omicron variant which threatens to plunge the country into a fresh...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ready for new COVID-19 variant
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday urged citizens not to panic in the wake of the new deadly COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, detected in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana, saying governme...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 08:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'No risk yet from SA Covid variant'
The country does not face any significant risk yet from the new Covid-19 variant recently detected in South Africa, health experts have said.On Monday, South Africa's National Institute for Co...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
More vaccines coming
THE Government will take delivery of at least 6 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses this month and next month as it moves to minimise the impact of the pandemic as the more infectious Delta variant ha...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe contains Covid-19 Indian variant
The deadly Covid-19 Indian variant that was detected in Kwekwe is being contained with no new cases recorded since confirmation of the first case last week.Government activated its health emer...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwig dismisses 'unnecessary' Kwekwe lockdown
FORMER Health Minister and top MDC Alliance official, Henry Madzorera has described the government decreed localised lockdown in Kwekwe as nothing but an assault on the church which has become the onl...Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has Covid-19 genomic sequencing capacity
Zimbabwe now has the capacity to do Covid-19 genomic sequencing, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga said during his virtual address to the ongoing 74th World ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Deadly Indian Covid-19 variant detected in Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT yesterday said the Covid-19 variant which India is grappling with has reached Zimbabwe and travellers from that country will now be mandatorily quarantined upon arrival.The World He...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga confronts Indian variant
THE Government has activated its health emergency systems to deal with the deadly Covid-19 variant — B.1. 617 — first detected in India after genomic sequencing tests revealed it is now in Zimbabw...Published: 20 May 2021 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Returnees to meet own quarantine expenses
All returnees will now be required to undergo a mandatory quarantine at their own expense while those who test positive to Covid-19 will be expected to isolate at a centre of their choice. Gov...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs US$7m for corona vaccines
THE government is mobilising about US$7 million to acquire enoug hvaccines to inoculate 60 percent of the population with the first phase of the programme commencing on Thursday with frontline workers...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'SA covid-19 variant is dominating 61%' - proof Zimbabwe has not been testing for it until now, why
"Cabinet wishes to inform that results of the genomic sequencing which was recently conducted indicate that the new SA covid-19 variant is dominating by 61%. The variant we were dealing with in 2020 h...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's govt threatens more restrictions
GOVERNMENT yesterday warned citizens to brace for more movement restrictions in light of the highly fatal and fast-spreading South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, which now constitutes 61% of n...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination roll-out kicks off
Vaccination against Covid-19 starts tomorrow with 49 000 health workers and thousands of other high-risk frontline staff being scheduled for stage one of phase one using the first batch of the Sinopha...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa variant now 'dominant' in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe says the coronavirus variant first discovered in neighbouring South Africa now makes up more than 60% of cases within its borders.It is the first country outside of South Africa to re...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 21:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara speaks about Chinese vacine trials
Former Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says if the Chinese were in a proactive and empowering partnership with Harare, clinical trials should have been done on the Sinopharm vaccine ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs come face-to-face with Zimbabwe's crippled healthcare system
ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19.The 61-year-old, who rose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends lockdown to February 15
Zimbabwe on Friday announced a 10-day extension to a month-long coronavirus lockdown to curb surging infections.Acting President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the health minister, said the...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 18:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK scientists in Covid-19 collaboration
United Kingdom (UK) researchers are collaborating with Zimbabwean scientists through the use of latest technologies to gain insight into Covid-19 and tackle its spread. This comes as the country has t...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK to support Zimbabwe in identifying new Covid-19 variants
UK health secretary Matt Hancock has announced the United Kingdom's support with genomics expertise to help other countries identify new COVID-19 variants comes as researchers at the Quadram Institute...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses down injections and thermometers
NURSES at major public hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo downed tools yesterday for fear of contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus after being forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE)....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt told to tailor-make measures for COVID-19 hotspots
GOVERNMENT should identify COVID-19 provincial hotspots and implement tailored measures or different levels of the lockdown depending on the incidence of the virulent disease, human rights doctors hav...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The Rhodes Trust announces Historic Class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars
The Rhodes Trust today announces a record-breaking class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars. This cohort, who will arrive at Rhodes House, Oxford, in October 2019, features young people from all fields of stu...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Agencies
African hospitals adopt SOPHiA artificial intelligence to trigger continent-wide healthcare leapfrogging movement
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Sophia Genetics (www.SophiaGenetics.com), global leader in Data-Driven Medicine, unveiled today, at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ameri...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 09:59hrs | 12 | by APO
As food crisis persists, Zimbabwe's dilemma escalates; to eat or not to eat GMOs
Eighty-year-old Gogo Mutimba from Chitora about 50 kilometres south of the border city of Mutare in Zimbabwe stares blankly at the clear October blistering afternoon sun.With a frown she r...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
United Kingdom (UK) Scholarships
Overseas Student Scholarship, University of Abertay Dundee, UKOverseas S...Published: 31 Jan 2012 at 06:17hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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