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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: 42 mins ago | 131 | by Shingai Nyoka BBC News
Lawyers take Mnangagwa govt to task over coronavirus
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track dow...Published: 6 hrs ago | 670 | by Staff reporter
How COVID-19 is changing the lives of Tanzanians
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) swept through Asia, Europe and North America early this year, medical experts warned that it was just a matter of time before other continents, including Africa, would st...Published: 8 hrs ago | 716 | by Stella Vuzo
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: 8 hrs ago | 178 | by Siddharth Chatterjee
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: 9 hrs ago | 146 | 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: 9 hrs ago | 624 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in panic buying mode
THE total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 will start at midnight with the Government passionately calling on citizens to comply with the directive and instructions from security personnel d...Published: 10 hrs ago | 293 | by Staff reporter
Fear as HIV, coronavirus collide
AS the world scales up public health and all other kinds of responses to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the fear is palpable.Stores have sold out obvious items like hand sanitisers and f...Published: 10 hrs ago | 203 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
United we can fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Friday announced that the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory had successfully tested 188 people since the outbreak of the disease in the country and ha...Published: 10 hrs ago | 57 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally cracks whip on business over COVID-19
As the country recorded its third case of Covid-19 and one death, the Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has ordered all big businesses to avail hand sanitizers and temp...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:02hrs | 1907 | by Staf reporter
People who die of Coronavirus in Zimbabwe will be buried the unusual way says Mangwana
Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Information Nick Mangwana has said people who die of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Zimbabwe will not be buried the usual way.In Zimbabwe people that die from...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 14:40hrs | 2941 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Chiwenga returns from China to chair Covid-19 taskforce
Health minister Obadiah Moyo was branded "useless" by furious army chiefs during a meeting of the Cabinet taskforce on Covid-19 on Friday.Moyo, who has been under intense public criticism from...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:07hrs | 4793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lockdown to start tomorrow midnight
Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Information Nick Mangwana has said Zimbabwean total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 starts tomorrow at m...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1324 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 4678 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa office's corruption exposed
A DAMNING audit report has implicated the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) in a murky deal in which it arm-twisted Zesa Holdings into handpicking businessperson Kuda Tagwirei's company, Sakun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1896 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 confirmed cases spikes to 7 in Zimbabwe
THE number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Zimbabwe has risen to seven, with one of them having succumbed to the disease. In a statement yesterday, the Permanent Secretary i...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:40hrs | 737 | 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 | 296 | by Staff reporter
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 | 408 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pardons 5,000 prisoners
About 5000 prisoners will be released from the country's prison following a general amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Zimbabwe's prisons have a carrying capacity of 17 000 inmates but at...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 14:47hrs | 2200 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus - Mnangagwa to impose national lockdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is considering a national lock down in an effort to nip the spread of the deadly coronavirus.In a communic...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:34hrs | 5524 | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe confirms fifth COVID-19 case
Zimbabwe now has five coronavirus cases (COVID-19), with only one fatality still recorded, the Health ministry has announced.But the staggering statistic is that the country has only carried o...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:03hrs | 2162 | 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 | 654 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe Treasury in coronavirus scare
Top directors in the Ministry of Finance have gone into self-isolation after getting into contact with the late Zororo Makamba who passed on this week due to coronavirus.Makamba succumbed to t...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1979 | by Staff reporter
Wilkins hospital shuts down
ZIMBABWE's largest referral centre for COVID-19 cases, Wilkins Hospital in Harare, was shut down yesterday to "allow for further renovations", but medical staff at the health institution said the clos...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 3226 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 fears hit Kwekwe General Hospital
UNCERTAINTY has gripped Kwekwe General Hospital after a nurse at the institution reportedly visited her COVID-19-positive husband in Portugal last month, returned home and assumed her duties at the he...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei upgrades 2 COVID-19 treatment centres
FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has embarked on a project to upgrade St Anne's Hospital and jailed rapist and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke's state-of-the-art Rock Foundation Medical Hospital in Harare...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1976 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirmed coronavirus cases hits 5
CONFIRMED cases of coronavirus in Zimbabwe have risen to five, the Ministry of Health has announced.Two new cases were reported Wednesday, Secretary for Health Agnes Mahomva said in her daily ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 4006 | by Staff reporter
Thorngrove hospital still to get funding for coronavirus equipment
THORNGROVE Hospital in Bulawayo, which is one of the two infectious diseases hospitals that have been established to cater for coronavirus patients, is still ill-equipped to admit patients as governme...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 247 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa will not assist, repatriate Zimbabwe Covid-19 victims based abroad
AS the coronavirus takes its toll across the globe, the Zimbabwe government has no plans to advance any form of assistance to Zimbabweans based abroad who fall sick or die from the pandemic.Th...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 384 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa sends workers home
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday ordered a partial lockdown for government and Zanu-PF workers, saying only a third should report for duty while others stay at home as part of efforts to combat ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:15hrs | 8362 | by Staff reporter
Traditional healer speaks on Coronavirus
Prominent Zimbabwean traditional healer Sekuru Banda has expressed hope on the deadly Coronavirus saying people should not panic.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com in Harare today the traditional heal...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 13:08hrs | 3713 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Sakunda Holdings responds to COVID-19 fight assistance call
Sakunda Holdings has come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and re-equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital in an effort to assist government in the fight agai...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2959 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Chamisa told to stop playing games on Corona Virus
The MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has once again set tongues wagging following his recent pronouncement that Harare had recorded two more cases of corona virus contrary to pronouncements by th...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:47hrs | 5146 | by Staff reporter
Food hampers for COVID-19 medical staff
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) will donate 200 monthly hampers for a period of two months to medical personnel deployed by government to deal with coronavirus countrywide.In ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC accused of trying to gain political mileage during a crisis
GOVERNMENT has gagged the opposition MDC from commenting and speaking authoritatively on COVID-19, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday accusing the opposition of trying to gain political milea...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 4628 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean student dies of Covid-19 in United States
A Zimbabwean student at St. Andrews University in the United States has died of coronavirus, according to a family spokesperson, Takudzwa Mandaza. Mandaza said his 19-year-old cousin, Melissa Jacqueli...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 734 | by VOA
ZIMRA takes measures to curb the spread of COVID-19
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is aware that due to the nature of the daily work and the positioning of our offices, stations and ports of entry, our staff are at high risk in terms of exposur...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 19:26hrs | 2288 | by Faith Mazani ZIMRA Commissioner General
COVID-19: Sakunda Holdings identifies two health facilities
SAKUNDA Holdings and its associates have come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital as a way of complementing Governme...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:44hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Corona Virus test kits arrive in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has received its consignment of Coronavirus testing kits and prevention material donated by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma.In response to the latest developments in the wake of the devas...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:32hrs | 3345 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt officials take measures to avoid contracting lethal disease
IN AN unprecedented development, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, and his ministers held their weekly Cabinet meeting in a tent at State House yesterday, after it emerged that the late broadcas...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Council ropes in army on COVID-19
GWERU City Council's health department has trained medical staff from the Zimbabwe Military Academy and other arms of the State security agents such as the police and air force to be better equipped t...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:09hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
No self-isolation for Mnangagwa
HEALTH and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has said government will not force President Emmerson Mnangagwa into self-quarantine following a trip to Namibia at the weekend.Mnangagwa attended t...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 5238 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa approved Chivayo's Gwanda solar project
THE final forensic audit report on Zesa Holdings (2019) by PricewaterouseCoopers has revealed that former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa approved the proposal to award Wicknell Chivayo's Intratrek...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube not in self-isolation
INFORMATION Ministry Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana has dismissed as false, reports circulating on social media that Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has gone into self-isolation following his contro...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 5902 | by Staff reporter
Warriors coach Loga's salary revealed
WARRIORS coach, Zdravko "Loga'' Logarusic, earns a salary of US$7 000 a month and is likely to have pocketed, at least, US$70 000 by the time he leads his team into a competitive football match for th...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Compulsory testing powers gazetted
As Zimbabwe confirms its third Covid-19 infection, the infection has been declared a formidable epidemic disease in terms of the Public Health Act, allowing the Minister of Health and Child Care to ma...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Zororo buried under medical supervision
THE government has confirmed the burial Tuesday of journalist Zororo Makamba who died on Monday, succumbing to the COVID-19 pandemic which has wreaked havoc across the world.Makamba, the 30-ye...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 19:27hrs | 3822 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirms third positive corona virus case
The Health ministry has revealed that one male tested positive for the virus from some 15 specimens tested on Tuesday."As of today, the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country is now...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6395 | by Staff reporter
Lets fight Corona virus, but lets not forget the agenda of Removing Zanu-PF
As the World is fight against Corona virus, I urge Zimbabweans to also keep on fighting for the betterment of their country.Zimbabwe has been in the hands of corrupt and ruthless leaders who a...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:32hrs | 1004 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mthuli Ncube and George Charamba aides self-isolate
At least three civil servants have been tested for coronavirus after coming into contact with Zororo Makamba, who died from the disease on Monday.Two aides of deputy cabinet secretary and pres...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 17:14hrs | 5089 | by Staff reporter
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