ZTN Correspondent Medical doctors in Zimbabwe have approached the High Court to compel Government to intensify Coronavirus testing and provide adequate personal protective equipment for health personnel. The Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights filed an urgent chamber application on Monday with Ministers Dr Obadiah Moyo (Health and Child Care); Professor Mthuli Ncube (Finance) and Joel […]
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Mirirai Nsingo The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society is set to turn its facilities across the country into Covid-19 isolation and treatment centres. This comes as the southern African country has recorded 9 cases of Covid-19, one death and tested just above 300 people. ZRCS head of communication Kim Stambuli said they are already working with […]
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Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Government has moved hundreds of homeless people in Harare to various centres on the outskirts of the city as part of measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. They are being accommodated in Mt Hampden, Ruwa Rehabilitation Centre and Jamaica Inn. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting […]
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ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe will decide whether or not to extend its 21-day lockdown at the end of the period. The country’s leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said this as he toured suburbs in the capital Harare on Sunday.He visited Mabvuku, Tafara, Kuwadzana, Mufakose, Budiriro, Glen-View and Chitungwiza; and was pleased with citizens’ response to the lockdown. […]
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Takudzwa Chihambakwe Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the 2020 National Budget will be revised due to the impact of the coronavirus. The President was addressing the nation on Friday afternoon from State House as he gave updates on what Government and its various partners are doing to fight the spread of the virus which has […]
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China will step up assistance to Namibia and other African countries in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Namibian President Hage Geingob in a telephone conversation on Friday. Xi said China will continue to share its experience in COVID-19 prevention and control with African countries and enhance health cooperation, adding that the […]
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Malawi has reported its first three confirmed cases of coronavirus. President Peter Mutharika made the announcement in an address to the nation on Thursday and the government also tweeted about it on its official handle: He said the three cases were in the capital, Lilongwe. The first involved a 61-year-old woman who had recently travelled […]
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With the Covid-19 epidemic putting all sporting activity across the world on pause Zimbabwe international goalkeeper George Chigova reckons there are times when the famous statement that football is bigger than both life and death does not hold true. Legendary former Liverpool coach Bill Shankly once famously quipped: “Some people think football is a matter […]
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Takudzwa Chihambakwe There is a hive of activity at most institutions of higher learning in Zimbabwe as students and lecturers are running around to see what they can do to help curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which has since been dubbed by the Government as the “invincible enemy”. Some of the institutions have […]
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