Staff Reporter AGRICULTURE Minister Perrance Shiri died of Covid-19, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced. He confirmed this was while addressing mourners at the late minister’ s Borrowdale home in Harare Thursday afternoon. Shiri was 65. Shiri died Wednesday morning while being taken to a Chinese medical facility for treatment. He had been placed under self-isolation
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE’S confirmed Covid-19 cases stood at 2 879 Wednesday after 62 more people tested positive on the day including 50 locals, the Health Ministry said. One more death was recorded on the day, bringing the number of fatalities to 41. “Sixty two cases tested positive for Covid-19 today (Wednesday). These include 50
By Staff Reporter THE Ministry of Health Tuesday reported 113 new Covid-19 infections, pushing the total cases to 2,817 and the death toll to 40 to date. Of the 113 new cases, 112 were local transmissions. There were 62 recoveries on the day. In its daily Covid-19 update, the ministry said two deaths were recorded
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE’S confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 2 704 on Monday after 192 more people tested positive to the world pandemic. There are 36 related deaths so far while 542 people have recovered from the disease. This is according to the Health Ministry’s daily update on the Covid-19 situation in the country. Of
By Staff Reporter FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Director of Banking Supervision and businessman Norman Mataruka has died of coronavirus amid reports he was refused admission at government’s Parirenyatwa Hospital. Former Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi also tweeted the tragic news which has also gone viral on social media. “Norman Mataruka has passed away.
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE’s parliament has been forced to suspend business after two unnamed MPs and a journalist are said to have tested positive to coronavirus. This was confirmed in a Monday statement by Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda. “It is with a heavy heart that parliament announces the suspension of most of its business
TimesLive It took Zimbabwe five months to reach 1,000 Covid-19 cases but within a week the country is approaching 3,000. As of Saturday, there were 2,434 confirmed cases, including 518 recoveries and 34 deaths. For the past two weeks, Zimbabwe has been registering an average of 717 cases per week. Health-care workers say they are
TimesLive Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe has been discharged from hospital, according to cabinet spokesperson Ms Phumla Williams. The Minister tested positive for Covid-19 on 14 July 2020 and went into self-quarantine. On 20 July 2020, Minister Mantashe was admitted to hospital for further medical attention and monitoring. Though he has been
By Robert Tapfumaneyi AUTHORITIES at Parirenyatwa Hospital have revealed 70 staff medical have tested positive for Covid-19 while urging the mandatory testing of all patients for the dreaded disease before admission into the government health facility. In a statement Saturday, the hospital management said it believed the sharing of critical information with staff members was
TimesLive Zimbabweans who missed the submission deadline on July 19 to apply for food assistance cannot get an extension, Zimbabwean consul general in Johannesburg Melody Chaurura told GroundUp on Wednesday. “There is no room for extension at this point because submitted details are already being processed,” said Chaurura. The embassy had put out a call
By Staff Reporter AT LEAST 21 Cimas Medical Aid Society staffers tested Covid-19 positive at the High Glen Clinic in Harare forcing the temporary closure of the health centre Sunday. In its Covid-19 update bulletin, Cimas chief executive (CEO) Vulindela Ndlovu confirmed the development and said a receptionist had tested positive for Covid-19 last Thursday
By Staff Reporter THE number of people who have succumbed to Covid-19 in Zimbabwe has reached 25 following the death of a 36-year-old Bulawayo woman Saturday, the Health Ministry has confirmed. In its daily Covid-19 update, the ministry also confirmed that cases had reached 1 478, including 439 recoveries and 25 deaths. “58 cases tested
By Robert Tapfumaneyi ZIMBABWE senior hospital doctors have given the government 14 days to address their grievances or they will withdraw their services. The doctors said after the expiry of the ultimatum, they will no longer be able to continue to report for work. In a notice of intent by the Zimbabwe Senior Hospitals
By Staff Reporter TWO brothers who were among returning residents recently deported from South Africa are said to have infected eight family members with coronavirus after escaping from the NSSA quarantine centre in Beitbridge. This was revealed Friday by Ministry of Information secretary, Nick Mangwana. “Wiseman Ngwenya and Morgan Ngwenya absconded from Beatrice quarantine centre
By Staff Reporter A FEMALE Harare High Court judge (name supplied) is in self-isolation at home after her husband tested positive for Covid-19 Monday. Also is isolation is the judge’s clerk. Sources said the judge informed the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) of the development Monday. The JSC recommended she be put under quarantine together with
By Staff Reporter CONFIRMED cases of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe reached 1 034 Monday while deaths rose to 19, the Health Ministry said in its daily update. “Forty-nine cases tested positive for Covid-19 today (Monday). These include returnees from South Africa, 28, and 21 local cases who are isolated,” the ministry said. “Seven of the local cases are
Sky News The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic. It is a revelation which underlines the damage Covid-19 has inflicted on immigrant communities in the UK. Dr Brighton Chireka says urgent focus is needed to
ANA At least 209 people have escaped from compulsory quarantine for returning residents in Zimbabwe, state media reported. The police have managed to arrest 28 people who escaped from quarantine centres countrywide. On Monday, 10 returnees, two of them Covid-19 positive, escaped from quarantine centres countrywide, The Herald reported. Two Covid-19-positive people escaped from Pangani
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE’S confirmed Covid-19 cases have surged to 885 after 98 fresh cases were recorded in a single day on Wednesday. This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in its regularly update of the Covid-19 situation in the country. According to the ministry, more than half of the new cases were imported
By Anna Chibamu ZIMBABWEANS will now spend a minimum of 13 days in isolation centres following cabinet approval on the adoption of World Health Organisation (WHO) new guidelines on discharge of Covid-19 patients from isolation centres after just 13 days. Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa announced the new guidelines at a post-cabinet media briefing Tuesday. The
