By The Standard ZIMBABWE is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established. There are fears the vaccines might expire before use or become less effective as they draw closer to their best-by date.
By Alois Vinga ZIMBABWE’s tourism sector has suffered a total loss of US$690 million due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s first National Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) launched Thursday has said. The account was developed in partnership with the United Nations World Tourism Organisations (UNWTO) and the Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality
By Thandiwe Garusa FULLY vaccinated travelers will no longer be required to produce ‘valid’ negative Covid-19 test results at any border post when entering Zimbabwe, information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said. Those who are yet to be vaccinated or those not yet fully vaccinated will however need proof of a negative test result. Addressing journalists at Tuesday’s post cabinet
By James Muonwa AT least 53 returnees from South Africa have escaped from mandatory quarantine at the Beitbridge Border Covid-19 Centre. Fears of a resurgence of the Covid-19 Omicron variant code-named ‘Stealth’ has prompted heightened surveillance at the country’s ports of entry. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Monday alerted the public to the escape
By Staff Reporter GOVERNMENT is sweating over escalating Covid-19 hospital admissions. This was revealed at a post-Cabinet media briefing by Information and Publicity minister Monica Mutsvangwa, who stated that although there were reported Covid-19 cases in schools, they were not severe. “During the week under review, the number of people in need of hospitalisation for Covid-19
By Newsday HEALTHCARE workers (HCWs) reportedly suffered silently from mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This came out in a recent report by the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR), which exposed that HCWs were facing various hindrances in accessing mental health services. ZADHR secretary Norman Matara said the effects were seen
By Newsday “COVID-19 is not going away. It is going to be with us for many years, perhaps forever and we have to learn to live with it,” aptly said by Sajid Javid, the United Kingdom Health minister. Javid’s statement sums up the raging debate on whether the world should start treating COVID-19 as an
By Xinhua HARARE: Zimbabwe has vaccinated over 40 percent of its eligible population against COVID-19, achieving herd immunity in some of its towns and cities, with vaccines mainly from China. This is Zimbabwe’s milestone in the fight against the pandemic, said President Emmerson Mnangagwa when opening the 3rd Session of the Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission in
By Newsday LOCAL health experts have warned of a brewing fifth wave of COVID-19 following a spike in new cases in schools since the beginning of the first term nearly two weeks ago. According to latest statistics from the Health and Child Care ministry, schools in Matabeleland North and Masvingo provinces contributed 131 of the
By Staff Reporter BOTSWANA has introduced new Covid-19 guidelines barring entry to visitors that have not taken booster shots. The new measures take effect from today. The move is likely to affect thousands of cross Zimbabwean cross border traders who flock in and out of the neighbouring country on a daily basis. “Being fully vaccinated
VOA AMID a surge of Covid-19 cases in India and other parts of the world, the United States remains noncommittal on an October 2020 proposal by India and South Africa to waive certain provisions of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The proposal would loosen patent restrictions so
Wires LOCKDOWNS during the first Covid-19 wave in the spring of 2020 only reduced mortality by 0,2% in the U.S. and Europe, according to a Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of several studies. “While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where
By Mandipa Masenyama THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concern over the improper disposal of waste related to Covid-19 responses which is now posing great threats to human and environmental health. In a statement Tuesday, WHO said there is urgent need for Covid-19 response waste management to improve as it is now posing a
By Thandiwe Garusa THE government has announced that schools will open for the 2022 learning calendar on 7 February while the curfew now starts at midnight ending at 0530hrs, easing some of the restrictive measures put in place to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest measures were announced Friday afternoon by Acting Health Minister Amon
By Bulawayo Correspondent THE BULAWAYO city council in conjunction with the ministry of Health and Child Care, has embarked on an accelerated door to door Covid-19 vaccination programme. According to the vaccination itinerary released by the local authority, the programme kick started in Luveve last week followed by New Luveve and Old Luveve. Doses one,
Xinhua ZIMBABWE has seen a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases over the past week, with daily cases dropping from 709 on January 10 to 144 Sunday, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health and Child Care Monday. Deaths have also consistently declined over the period from 20 per day to four deaths Sunday. The
Reuters ZIMBABWE’S President Emmerson Mnangagwa said Wednesday that China would be donating another 10 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine over the course of 2022. Zimbabwe, like most African countries, is struggling with low rates of vaccination, due to availability issues and also to vaccine hesitancy or public apathy. The country has so far fully
By Sports Reporter THE Chevrons’ preparations for their tour of Sri Lanka have been dealt a huge blow after the cricket head coach Lalchand Rajput tested positive for Covid-19 soon after the team’s arrival in the South Asian nation. Rajput’s positive test means he will miss the first two One-Day Internationals (ODIs) of the three-match
By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country has adapted to the new Covid-19 normal and people can now engage in their normal day-to-day activities despite the scale of the prevalence of the pandemic. Zimbabwe is currently battling a fourth Covid-19 wave of the Covid-19 outbreak dominated by the Omicron. Addressing a gathering
By Staff Reporter MEDICAL experts say there has to be a huge uptake of the Covid-19 booster jab to effectively fend off the variant. This comes at a time when a new IHU variant of the respiratory disease, which has already affected 12 people has been detected in France. The new variant is said to
