ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe’s Health Ministry says it has detected the first cases of a new coronavirus variant that emerged in India and was responsible for a surge of infections and deaths in the Asian country. In a statement on Wednesday, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is Minister of Health and Child Care, urged caution. He revealed […]
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Mazvita Samuriwo South Africa, which has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases on the African continent with over 1.4 million cases of Covid-19, received the Pfizer vaccine on 2 May, with the first batch containing approximately 325,260 Pfizer doses. An additional estimated figure of 4.5 million Pfizer doses is set to arrive by the end of […]
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ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the war against Covid-19 can only be won if it is approached from a united front. Zimbabwe has recorded 29 408 cases of the disease and 879 deaths since March last year. At the double burial of Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister Ellen Gwaradzimba and Zanu-PF Central Committee member […]
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ZTN Correspondent President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has announced that he and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus. Trump (74) falls into the highest risk category for serious complications from the disease, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans and more than 1 million people worldwide. “Tonight, @FLOTUS and […]
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ZTN Correspondent Eighteen more deaths due to Covid-19 have been recorded between Thursday last week and Tuesday this week after tests during post-mortems, taking the total national death toll to 122. In its daily report yesterday (Wednesday), the Ministry of Health and Child Care said the patients died in the community and on admission to […]
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ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe should not lower its guard in the fight against Covid-19, as cases of the virus continue to rapidly increase, the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa warned on Monday. He said this in a televised 40th Heroes Day Anniversary speech. According to latest data from the Health Ministry, 104 people have died from the […]
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Kimberleigh Jiro The national death toll from Covid-19 now stands at 80 as 10 more people succumbed to the disease yesterday. To date Zimbabwe has 4,075 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with 154 new cases all of which are local transmissions and have been isolated. According to the daily Covid-19 report by the Ministry of […]
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Lloyd Ndemo Harare City Council has temporarily closed Town House and three other buildings after some members of staff tested positive for Covid-19. Rowan Martin, Cleveland House and Remembrance Drive offices are the other buildings that have been affected. Acting Mayor Councillor Enock Mupamawonde said all committee and management meetings will be done virtually to […]
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ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 cases have breached the 1 000 mark, as the death toll rose to 19 on Monday. The death was detected in the latest case postmortem. “We await the full postmortem report of the direct cause of the death,” the Health Ministry said in a statement. A total of 49 new cases […]
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ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe on Saturday recorded five Covid-19 cases post-mortem as its death toll from the disease reached 18. And 13 health workers were among 40 Zimbabweans confirmed Covid-19 positive in the latest round of tests. The five deaths occurred in Bulawayo and Harare, and the disease was “detected during routine post-mortem (examination)”, the Health […]
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