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Jubilation as Strive Masiyiwa's ventilators arrive in the country
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ventilator suites that were donated by businessman and Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa are now in the country ready to be deployed.Through his Higher Life Foundati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 4418 | by Agencies
Thorngrove Hospital wards to reopen
Bulawayo's Thorngrove infectious diseases hospital's closed wards are expected to re-open next week after undergoing a $74,7 million facelift. The project is on course with significant refurbi...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 breakthrough drug dexamethasone is made in SA
The newly-discovered coronavirus breakthrough drug dexamethasone is produced and readily available in South Africa, giving hope amid a surge in both infections and deaths.The drug was already ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 14:03hrs | 3342 | by Busisani Ncube
Strive Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators
Strive Masiyiwa has announced the arrival of 45 full ICU ventilators in Zimbabwe which the businessman ordered a couple of months back. The billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, who is ...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:51hrs | 175 | by Agencies
Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators to Zimbabwe
BUSINESS tycoon Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced the arrival of 45 full intensive care unit ventilators in Zimbabwe, for which he placed an order a couple of months back.The billionaire ent...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
The Dalish Nguwaya saga, Justice or scape goat
For the past few months Zimbabwe was gripped with news of corruption involving The first family in particular Collins Mnangagwa and his associate DALISH Nguwaya the local representative of a medical c...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:47hrs | 905 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Stanbic starts distributing Covid 19 PPEs
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has kick-started the distribution of US$200 000 worth of equipment to health institutions throughout the country for use by frontline workers in th...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:42hrs | 155 | by Own correspondent
Masiyiwa champions AU COVID-19 fight
THE African Union (AU) has set in motion a bid to raise resources for the procurement of 15 million COVID-19 test kits per month for distribution to member States as the regional body up-scales testin...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:45hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
9 Covid-19 recoveries in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has recorded nine Covid-19 recoveries leaving only two active cases but health experts are warning against complacency as it could steer a comeback of the virus. According to an updat...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:16hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bucks the trend as more patients recover from Covid-19
Almost half of Zimbabwe's confirmed Covid-19 patients have now fully recovered with more shrugging off the last of their infection almost every day, but medical experts warn that this is no reason to ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:09hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
40,000+ to die from coronavirus in South Africa by November
More than 40 000 people are expected to die from the coronavirus in South Africa by November, one million people will be infected and the country is unlikely to have enough ICU beds at the peak of the...Published: 19 May 2020 at 23:02hrs | 3725 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa urges collaboration among private sector, NGOs and faith-based organizations in combating COVID-19 in Africa
Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the 'ITTIT' formula to fighting the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic as governments across the continent gradually ease...Published: 16 May 2020 at 15:05hrs | 865 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he was under pressure to lift the national lockdown and re-open the country's ailing economy, but indicated that his priority is to save lives first before ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 27056 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Cyril Ramaphosa's speech on lockdown measures
My Fellow South Africans,This week, our country reached a sad moment in the progression of the coronavirus pandemic, as we recorded our 219th death from the disease.Every life lost is ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 21:46hrs | 4178 | by Cyril Ramaphosa
In Era of COVID-19, Russia's Strategic Politics of Coronavirus Aid Takes the Stage in Africa
With coronavirus rapidly spreading among the population of 148 million, Russia took the third position in the world. According to the official data provided on May 11, Russia had an aggregate total of...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:02hrs | 476 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
PHOTOS: Chinese medical brigade descend on Zimbabwe
A delegation of 12 Chinese medical experts has jetted in Harare to assist the country in the fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic.The delegation is bringing with them medical supplies...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:54hrs | 2121 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe returnees top 3 000
THE country received 527 citizens returning from South Africa yesterday through the Beitbridge Border Post bringing the number of returnees from various countries to 3 134 since the country and other ...Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Chinese built 1 000 bed covid-19 hospital in 10 days: our isolation centres don't even have running water - after 6 months!
"The (Beitbridge Rainbow Hotel) Isolation Centre has no tap water because Beitbridge generally has a serious water crisis attributed to the inefficiencies of the local council. The borehole that the c...Published: 08 May 2020 at 15:02hrs | 989 | by Wilbert Mukori
Bulawayo now has 5 ventilators
BULAWAYO now has five ventilators; three portable ones at Ekusileni Medical Centre and two to be mounted at Thorngrove Infectious Diseases Hospital to be used by Covid-19 patients. Ventilators...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:30hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Harare donates 2 ventilators to Bulawayo
Harare Mayor His Worship Herbert Gomba has donated two ventilators to the City of Bulawayo to assist in the fight against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. Speaking after receiving nine ventila...Published: 07 May 2020 at 20:14hrs | 559 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe must go into home-grown solutions overdrive
Zimbabwe must go into overdrive in using home-grown solutions, local manufacturing and links to universities and colleges to grow the economy and address challenges building on the innovative collabor...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:08hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Chinese help in Zimbabwe's Covid-19 fight raises suspicions
China is publicly handing out money and equipment to help fight the spread of coronavirus in Zimbabwe. But Beijing's generosity has made some very wary.Until now most in Zimbabwe have accepted...Published: 05 May 2020 at 16:27hrs | 4090 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's isolation centre has no ICU, ventilator
THORNGROVE Infectious Diseases Hospital, the city's main isolation centre, still has no Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a ventilator, critical in the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19), Mayor Solomon ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 donations well accounted for
In an effort to promote transparency and accountability, Government published in The Sunday Mail and The Sunday News, a list of all donations made towards the fight against COVID-19 to date.Th...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 210 | by Staff reporters
Retired UK based Zimbabwean nurse dies from Covid-19
A retired Zimbabwean nurse based in the United Kingdom has died of coronavirus after she had been invited back to work to assist front line staff in the fight against the world pandemic.Rachel...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean UK health workers in difficult times
THOUSANDS of Zimbabwean health workers might have left the country to seek greener pastures in the United Kingdom but with the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) ravaging that country many are now dying fa...Published: 03 May 2020 at 14:17hrs | 2262 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa: A whole-brained leader
AS Zimbabwe celebrates 40 years of independence, it is prudent to pay tribute to His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership and his economic blueprint, Vision 2030.The subject o...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:58hrs | 377 | by Hon Joe Biggie Matiza
Mnangagwa begs for support as Zimbabwe collapses
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has approached international financiers begging for a lifeline to avoid a possible economic collapse and political upheaval, a respected security publication ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:26hrs | 7190 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic joins the fight against COVID-19
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has put its shoulder on the wheel in the fight against Covid-19 by pledging an assortment of the much-needed equipment worth US$200 000....Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 17:05hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa leads campaign for Zimbabwe
Businessman Mr Strive Masiyiwa has appealed to the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral institutions for humanitarian support for Zimbabwe in the wake of the e...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 23:58hrs | 3463 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: South Africa minister says they are looking for vibrators
First President Cyril Ramaphosa accidentally donned his face mask like a Ninja Turtle during a live TV broadcast, now a minister in the presidency Jackson Mthembu has made a Freudian slip that has soc...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Don't Africans get tired of being poor?
And so it begins - Africa's gladiator fight with the most virulent of viruses to affect mankind in recent memory.And for the umpteenth time we are being reminded that this would be another Dav...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:03hrs | 162 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabwe records a budget surplus, But
Zimbabwe recorded its first fiscal surplus since 2011 as a result of significant contributions from Intermediate Monetary Transfer (IMT) Tax, subdued investment on capital expenditure and civil servic...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 718 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu PF denying MDC elected councillors to do their mandate: Manyenyeni
Former MDC Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has revealed that Zanu PF government has for the past years been blocking the opposition elected councillors in the capital city to exercise their mandate of...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 618 | by Stephen Jakes
The missing factor in Zimbabwe's 'cut and paste' response to Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic's impact continues to alter lives, livelihoods and futures. The number of confirmed cases and fatalities continues to rise. In Africa, 24 600 cases of Covid-19 have been ...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:42hrs | 364 | by Brian Kagoro
Audit exposes massive scam at National Microbiology Reference Laboratory
AN explosive internal audit into the Ministry of Health and Child Care has lifted the lid on poor financial controls and gross corporate governance failures at the National Microbiology Reference Labo...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:38hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Virus proves Zimbabwe can cut imports
Universities that suddenly came to life following the outbreak of Covid-19, rolling out manufacturing lines for materials for the prevention of Covid-19, should be a good example of how Zimbabwe can s...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:44hrs | 474 | by Lovemore Chikova
Mnangagwa equates Kuda Tagwirei to Biblical Peter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was Thursday full of praise for oil mogul and advisor, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, whom he equated to the Biblical Peter after the latter had handed over to government, a fully e...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: Kuda Tagwirei makes a huge donation to Zimbabwe
Sakunda, a company owned by controversial businessman Kuda Tagwirei, made a donation of goods worth US$ 2.6 million to the government of Zimbabwe on Thursday. The donation is a shot in the arm...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5793 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's exclusion from G20 debt relief must not block assistance for Covid-19 response
Following the announcement this week by the G20 of a temporary suspension of debt payments from the poorest countries due from 1 May to 31 December, 2020, Christian Aid is urgently pressing for Zimbab...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 11:56hrs | 926 | by ICN
Thorngrove still needs more PPEs
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation presenter Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has said despite the Thorngrove Isolation Hospital having started to admit its first Covid 19 patients, it still needs more Per...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 09:19hrs | 794 | by Stephen Jakes
29 returnees quarantined in Victoria Falls
THE number of deportees quarantined at Mosi-oa-Tunya High School in Victoria Falls to curb the spread of Covid-19 had risen to 29 yesterday, up from eight last Friday while two more people were expect...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:43hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa named among the world's top 9 notorious leaders
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been named by a United States of America website The Mail and Globe as one of the 9 notorious world leaders who responded to the coronavirus with denial, duplicity and...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 23:06hrs | 10723 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We won't stay and risk catching Covid-19,' says returnee - Zanu-PF blundering
When it comes to this Zanu-PF government carrying out its statutory duty of protecting the nation from the dreaded coronavirus, it is clear the regime has no clue. The regime claimed, indeed even boas...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 20:52hrs | 1359 | by Nomusa Garikai
The Avenues Clinic sets up a Foundation to assist in the fight against Covid-19
The country's premier private healthcare institution, Medical Investments Limited which trades as The Avenues Clinic, has joined forces with the Government and World Health Organisation in the fight a...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 20:42hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
It's reckless to entrust nation's destiny to thugs especially now with covid-19, heavy price to pay
There is one thing to be said about Zimbabweans, we are a naïve and gullible lot! Nowhere is this naivety more obvious that in the nation's collective belief that Zanu-PF's imposed lockdown would mak...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 20:37hrs | 1639 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
US$3 million Sakunda Holdings medical supplies arrive
The US$3 million Sakunda Holdings' equipment and supplies meant to fight COVID-19 have arrived in Harare as preparations for the opening up of Arundel Hospital gathers momentum.The arrival of ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda's US$3 million equipment arrives
DIVERSIFIED company Sakunda Holdings' US$3 million equipment and supplies meant to fight the coronavirus pandemic has arrived in Harare as preparations for the opening up of Arundel Hospital gathers m...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 16:30hrs | 812 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
PHOTOS: Coronavirus equipment arrives at Harare airport
State owned paper Herald has reported that a special Air Zimbabwe charter flight from China with a consignment of Covid19 combat supplies has landed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport....Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 12:12hrs | 2724 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt designates UBH COVID-19 treatment centre
GOVERNMENT has announced plans to designate United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) as a coronavirus isolation and treatment centre, making it the third health institutions to cater for COVID-19 patients in t...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:37hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
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