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Blood, swab tests for Covid-19 vaccine-takers
BLOOD and swab tests will be conducted for members of the public who will voluntarily take the Covid-19 vaccine which Government will start rolling out free of charge. Identification documentation wil...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
China introduces anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections
BEIJING - Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new coronavirus is miss...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 10:11hrs | | by Reuters
Harare free COVID-19 testing initiative hits snag
THE Harare City Council (HCC)'s free COVID-19 testing initiative has hit a snag amid concerns from patients that the process is fraught with inconsistencies and false starts.While the city fat...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Corruption rife at hospital mortuaries
CORRUPTION syndicates involving medical doctors, police officers, mortuary staff and agents of some little known funeral service companies are charging between US$40 and US$100 to speed up the post-mo...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
18 travellers caught with fake Covid-19 negative test results at Beitbridge border
THE Limpopo department of health has identified 18 cases of fake negative Covid-19 test results being produced at the Beitbridge border post by people attempting to enter SA.Health MEC Dr. Pho...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe business hours extended
THE Government has extended permitted businesses to operate any time between 6.30am to 6.30pm as part of a delicate process to balance the economy and respond to the Covid-19 threat, Information, Publ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda grumbles for money
The Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday expressed displeasure at the budget vote for Parliament and the Ministry of Health and Child Care describing them as paltry and im...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Slain tender board chief death inquest to be held
AN inquest will be held to determine the circumstances under which former State Procurement Board executive chairman Charles Kuwaza died, as suspicion that the career bureaucrat was killed mafia-style...Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafia-style murdered tender chief was scheduled to meet Mugabe
THE late former State Procurement Board executive chairman Charles Kuwaza was scheduled to privately meeting with President Robert Mugabe this past Wednesday, where he wanted to reveal the goings-on a...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tender board boss murderd mafia-style
FORMER State Procurement Board (SPB) executive chairman and senior professional bureaucrat Charles Kuwaza could have been murdered, contrary to the narrative he committed suicide by jumping to his dea...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
DNA samples to identify 14 accident victims
EXPERTS from the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) had by yesterday used DNA samples to identify 14 out of 23 people – by sex and age- who died in a horrific traffic accid...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scales up HIV self-testing project
Up to 375 000 Zimbabweans will be able to test themselves of HIV through saliva swabs for the next two years under a $23 million pilot project being spearheaded by Population Services Zimbabwe in part...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 05:12hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Bulawayo hospitals run out of drugs, oxygen
Equipment breakdowns and lack of essential drugs at Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals is threatening the health of the people in the region.Gone are the days when patients from all walks of ...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Liberia's Ebola-free region falls to virus
Monrovia - Every region of Liberia has now been hit by Ebola, officials said on Friday, as the World Health Organisation warned the fight against the worst-ever outbreak of the killer disease would ta...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
GAPPS launches biorepository of pregnancy specimens
GAPPS (Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth) has launched a biorepository of pregnancy specimens and linked phenotypic data that is widely accessible to researchers. Using GAP...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Swine Flu: know the symptoms
Following the country's high alert for the H1N1 virus make sure you know the symptoms of the disease. DescriptionSwine flu, or pandemic influe...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 14:05hrs | 3 | by Moyo Roy
Dead grandmother's spirit told her to stab her mother in the UK
A policewoman told a jury that a teenager appeared in "some kind of a trance" when arrested for attempting to murder her mother.Pc Patricia Lutz said she found 19-year...Published: 26 Jan 2011 at 18:33hrs | | by Byo24News
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