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Border-lying communities get tough on returnees
RURAL communities in Matabeleland provinces have taken it upon themselves to curb the increase in imported COVID-19 cases by apprehending returnees from South Africa and Botswana sneaking into the cou...Published: 15 hrs ago | 581 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 600 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Zimbabwe's Covid-19+ cases surpass 4 000
THE number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe has surpassed 4 000, taking 12 days to double since July 22. According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, by Monday, 4 075 people had ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Local transmissions constitute 95% of Bulawayo Covid-19 cases
LOCAL Covid-19 transmissions have risen alarmingly in the country, constituting more than 70 percent of all cases, while they make up 94,5 percent of Bulawayo's infections. This comes at a tim...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Govt makes it mandatory to test all corpses for Covid-19, virus kills 14 people in one week
AT least 14 people have died from Covid-19 on admission to health institutions across the country in the last six days with the Government making it mandatory for all corpses to be tested for the viru...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:28hrs | 734 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 death toll jumps to 76
COVID-19 cases continue to rise daily in Zimbabwe with the total number of people who have tested positive since March standing at 3 169 Friday.The death toll also rose to 67 after 14 new deat...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:52hrs | 3526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 deaths jump to 53
Fifty-three people have so far succumbed to Covid-19, although 924 have recovered from the disease, an update released by the Ministry of Health and Child Care last night shows."Today (yesterd...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
2 more die of Covid 19 in Zimbabwe
TWO more people have died and 190 others have tested Covid-19 positive in Zimbabwe, bringing the total numbers of cases in the country to 2 704 cases.According to the Ministry of Health and Ch...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 17:02hrs | 2650 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hits Bulawayo western suburbs
AUTHORITIES are considering stiffer suburb lockdowns amid a recent spike of confirmed Covid-19 cases in some high-density areas of Bulawayo.With over 587 locally transmitted cases in Bulawayo,...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:51hrs | 5097 | by Staff reporter
Hospital still 'urging for mandatory covid-19 testing' - we must hold Zanu PF to account for this
Detail matter! Zanu PF has committed murder, literally and metaphorically, again and again but has got away with it time and time again because the Zimbabwean people have either failed to notice, whic...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:08hrs | 722 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs revealed
FOUR high-density suburbs have been singled out the hotspots of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bulawayo, with authorities hinting that considerations were being put in place to introduce stiffer lockdown me...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pleads with SA to suspend deportations
Zimbabwe's immigration department is engaging its South African counterpart with a view to suspend mass deportations of citizens domiciled there until the Covid-19 pandemic subsides. South Afr...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5150 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe curfew fuels tension
TENSION has gripped Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid fears the Zanu-PF leader, who is failing to proffer solutions to deepening socioeconomic problems, ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Cross border drivers (oMalayitsha) smuggle Coronavirus infected dead bodies to Zimbabwe
Cross border transporters (oMalayitsha) are reportedly smuggling bodies of Zimbabweans who died of Coronavirus in neighbouring South Africa into the country thereby spreading the deadly Coronavirus. ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 12:27hrs | 9117 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Night curfew, restricted business hours imposed
A night curfew from 6pm to 6am for all but essential services and a retreat to 8am to 3pm working hours for exempted businesses have been imposed from today, along with criminalisation of deliberate o...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa imposes 6PM to 6AM curfew
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a curfew that will begin at 6 PM to 6 AM in an effort to curb the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. Addressing the nations at State House Mnangagwa a...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 13070 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Obert Mpofu goes into quarantine
Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Obert Mpofu has gone into quarantine after he recently returned from Tanzania, CITE revealed.Quarantine is for returnees from high-risk countries and such...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 15057 | by Staff reporter
Only essential services staff to report for duty
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe passed 1 700 yesterday, with more than half the patients infected within the country, the Government has decided that only civil servants providin...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2844 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo prisons contain COVID-19 outbreak
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has reported no further coronavirus (Covid-19) cases at its Bulawayo prison after four inmates and one prison officer recently tested positive for ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
'We slept on duty- Cimas' as 22 workers test positive for Covid-19
The rise of Covid-19 infections cutting across from mainly returnees from South Africa and Botswana is now an elephant in the house as many locals are also testing positive. According to a pre...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1744 | by Naume Muza
Zimbabwe to repatriate 200 students stranded in China
ABOUT 200 Zimbabwean students studying in China who have been stranded in that country following the Covid-19 induced lockdown are expected to be repatriated back home, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affa...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:34hrs | 4036 | by Staff reporter
Illegal returnees besiege Matobo, Bulilima
A SURVEY by civil society group, Habakkuk Trust, has revealed that Matobo and Bulilima districts in Matabeleland South were receiving an influx of illegal returnees, mostly from Botswana and South Afr...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: 2 men escape Beitbridge quarantine centre...infect 7 family members
Secretary for Information Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana says two male returnees who were locked inside a quarantine centre escaped and went to their homesteads and infected their family members with th...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 7485 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe records 25 new COVID-19 cases, total at 1,089
25 more people have tested positive to COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1089.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that the new cas...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 3428 | by Staff reporter
Copper thieves blackout Plumtree
PLUMTREE has been hit by a power outage after thieves stole copper cables supplying the border town on Sunday night, compromising security at the border post.The outage has also reportedly aff...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Govt deploys COVID-19 testing machine at Beitbridge
A high volume PCR machines has been moved to Beitbridge with a capacity to conduct about 1 200 diagnostic tests a day, with a second sent to Gwanda and capable of the same work rate. In an int...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:38hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Coronavirus kills Matabeleland South child
A Matabeleland South child has been reported dead after saccumbing to the deadly Coronavirus bringing the number of deaths to 19.In a statement of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Child Car...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 06:26hrs | 4480 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa calls for help to resuscitate ailing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to various stakeholders to participate in the development of a National Development Strategy in efforts to rebuild the ailing economy.This comes as Zi...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 6136 | by Staff reporter
More escape from Beitbridge quarantine
MORE people have escaped from the National Social Security (NSSA) Hotel which Government is using as a quarantine and isolation centre for Zimbabweans returning from South Africa. On Friday 14 people ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nation's Address - MLF
Revolutionary greetings to you all, in all corners of earth. I hope you are doing well and are safe from the coronavirus.Fellow Mthwakazi citizens, this has been one challenging quarter of the...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1938 | by MLF
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases reach 985
The number of confirmed infections of Covid-19 tested in Zimbabwe reached 985 by last night, with 18 deaths and 328 confirmed recoveries. The Ministry of Health and Child Care reported three m...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to resume work on July 28
All teachers should report for duty on July 28, the date set for the return of examination classes in the phased reopening of schools, and should make arrangements to be at their stations to either te...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 2093 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South Covid-19 situation worrying
The Covid-19 situation in Insiza district is fast developing into a crisis as the number of cases soars. The rise in the number of local cases was alleged...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1064 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 death rate increase to 18
THE number of deaths due to COVID-19 has increased to 18 following the death of 5 other people this Saturday.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care announced the dea...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:01hrs | 3076 | by Staff reporter
Thousands return to Zimbabwe as COVID-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the COVID-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:00hrs | 3223 | by Staff reporter
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 430 | by Staff Reporter
LIST: 14 COVID-19 positive returnees escape from Beitbridge quarantine centre
14 Covid-19 positive returnees escaped from Beitbridge Covid-19 quarantine centre, bringing the total to 223 of those who have escaped so far from compulsory quarantine for returning residents, with p...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:49hrs | 2989 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans smuggling dead bodies from SA
Zimbabweans are reportedly smuggling the dead bodies of their relatives from South Africa to bury them back home.Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda said the revelations were disturbing th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 10:31hrs | 9900 | by Stephen Jakes
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9409 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
AMID an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases including deaths, President Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that the Government could scale up preventive and containment measures. Addressing an Or...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3494 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
3 more die of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Three more people have died of Covid 19 bringing the cumulative number of deaths in Zimbabwe to 12 as confirmed cases have risen to 926 after 41 new cases were recorded yesterday.Two deaths we...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 2759 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4758 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 34 local COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Fifty-three people tested positive for COVID-19 this Tuesday bringing the total number of positive cases to 787.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said the peopl...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1919 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records 73 new Covid-19 positive cases in one day
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and refocus on the measures the country adopted at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in March if it is to avert a local transmission crisis, a senior government offic...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2254 | by Staff Reporter
Pupil writes exams from quarantine centre
A 16-YEAR-OLD pupil from a high school on the outskirts of Bulawayo is writing his Ordinary Level June examinations under quarantine in Bulawayo after returning from Botswana recently. The tee...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean embassies in dire straits
ZIMBABWEAN embassies are in dire straits with diplomats not being paid for several months, while living in squalid conditions as the government owes close to US$30 million for services rendered and re...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4276 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe records 17 new COVID-19 cases, 11 more recoveries
ZIMBABWE this Tuesday recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 591.Of the positive cases, 13 are returnees from South Africa while three are local ca...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:18hrs | 2579 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 patients on hunger strike
FIFTEEN COVID-19 patients at St Francis of Assisi High School in Chivhu went on a hunger strike on Sunday to force the government to release them, arguing that conditions at the centre were deplorable...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
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