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Bulawayo closes all quarantine centres
BULAWAYO has closed all of its Covid-19 quarantine centres owing to shortage of public space to accommodate returnees.At the peak of the first wave of the deadly virus last year, the city had ...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:11hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
No Covid-19 results, no passage for truck drivers
Commercial truck drivers and cross border transporters, commonly referred to as Omalayitsha must produce a certificate when they arrive at a Zimbabwean border post indicating they are Covid-19 free or...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:43hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK scientists in Covid-19 collaboration
United Kingdom (UK) researchers are collaborating with Zimbabwean scientists through the use of latest technologies to gain insight into Covid-19 and tackle its spread. This comes as the country has t...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
UK to support Zimbabwe in identifying new Covid-19 variants
UK health secretary Matt Hancock has announced the United Kingdom's support with genomics expertise to help other countries identify new COVID-19 variants comes as researchers at the Quadram Institute...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Government warns against fake Covid-19 death news
GOVERNMENT has issued a stern warning against spreading fake news and false information pertaining to the health condition of the country's leaders, including their purported deaths by members of the ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic irks Mnangagwa's govt
The secretary for Home Affairs, Aaron Nhepera, has issued a stern warning to those who are "spreading falsehoods" about the health and death of national leaders. Nhepera, a former deputy ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 16:05hrs | 1201 | by A.D.T Nhepera
Mnangagwa, Chamisa call for unity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called for unity in the fight against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the country hard with deaths fast approach...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:59hrs | 2535 | by Staff reporter
Majority of Zimbabwe returnees' illegal immigrants UN agency
EIGHTY percent of returnees into the country during the current Covid-19 health crisis came back from South Africa with the majority of them constituting citizens without travel documents, Sunday Sout...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:35hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa closes SA border to general traffic
South Africa will close its borders to general passenger traffic for the next two weeks to contain the spread of a new strain of Covid-19. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the decision last night, ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:41hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Over 41 000 returnees pass through Beitbridge
OVER 41 800 people and 7 012 commercial trucks passed through Beitbridge border post during the festive season amid fears that the influx of travellers contributed to the current spike in coronavirus ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
South Africa urges Zimbabweans to self-quarantine
SOUTH Africa's Department of Health in Limpopo Province has urged cross-border travellers who used the Beitbridge Port of Entry to access the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe in the last four days to...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe saw influx of festive travellers
ZIMBABWE'S 11 entry ports including airports recorded 103 097 entries during the December festive season with Beitbridge border post topping the list with over 40 000 people and 7 012 commercial truck...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Truck drivers give border authorities torrid time
PANIC has gripped Matabeleland South Province as there has been an increase in cases with truck drivers reportedly returning without valid Covid-19 free certificates, Provincial Medical Director Dr Ch...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 300 new Covid cases
Zimbabwe registered 300 new coronavirus cases and one death on Wednesday as police announced a ban on all New Year celebrations, including all-night prayers and musical gigs.Covid-19 cases and...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:28hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Government decentralises Covid-19 testing
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has decentralised Covid-19 testing to ensure the services are closer to the people and has so far approved 58 laboratories. Twenty six of the labs are at ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 162 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Thieves raid quarantine centre
POLICE are investigating theft of blankets and mattresses from a quarantine centre in Beitbridge town. Thieves allegedly broke into a storeroom at the Covid-19 transit, isolation and quarantin...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:56hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge's 22 unofficial ports of entry give Zimbabwe headaches
There are at least 22 unofficial entry points along the 200 kilometre Beitbridge borderline between Zimbabwe and South Africa, which poses a huge risk of Covid-19 cross border infections because of th...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:33hrs | 2853 | by Tumelo Nare
Congestion persists at Beitbridge Border Post
Congestion persisted at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday, with large numbers of Zimbabweans driving north and hoping to be home for Christmas and New Year, although the surge is only a third as large ...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
WHO warns Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans must not loosen their guard against Covid-19, President Mnangagwa and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have warned, while the Government wants people to forgo or at least seriously mini...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Curfew chaos at border
CONGESTION of vehicles and pedestrians travelling between South Africa and Zimbabwe has hit Beitbridge Border Post resulting in some travellers spending up to two days to cross the border. The...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Deportees fined for escaping from quarantine
Two Zimbabweans who recently escaped from a quarantine facility after being deported from South Africa, were yesterday fined $20 000 each by a local magistrate. Upon arrival by road via Beitbr...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Border officials must strictly enforce thorough screening of travellers for Covid-19
ZIMBABWE has today opened its land borders to private passenger vehicles and pedestrians. The borders were closed in March as part of the lockdown restriction measures meant to curb the spread of Covi...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Girls College closed over Covid-19 case
GIRLS College in Bulawayo has indefinitely closed following a Covid-19 case which was detected after the school held a leavers' party for Upper Six students. This development comes at a time w...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders call for massive COVID-19 tests
ZIMBABWE Cross-Border Traders Association (ZCBA) president Killer Zivhu has called for massive testing for COVID-19 at the country's entry points saying his members could die in large numbers if such ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:32hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe govt likely to impose lockdown'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro said his hands were clean in the US$6 million COVID-19 procurement scam in which he is implicated. Mangwiro said to date the Zimbabwe Anti-C...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Govt blames Covid-19 spike on border jumpers
The government has blamed the spike in Covid-19 cases in Bulawayo to illegal immigrants as fears of a second wave of the outbreak of the respiratory disease in Zimbabwe grow.Health and Child C...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:19hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 scare at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Poly
A JOSHUA Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic (JMNP) lecturer recently tested positive for COVID-19 while over 50 learners and educators at the institution were put on isolation after they were identified as pri...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:30hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
Thank God, covid-19 is not as deadly as Ebola, still it has delivered coup de grace on economy
"854 PCR tests done today (Wednesday), with the positivity at 2 percent. All 17 are local cases. 25 new recoveries reported: National Recovery rate stands at 94,5 percent and active cases go d...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 12:15hrs | 559 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe tightens screws on returnees from SA
THE Zimbabwe consul in South Africa, Melody Chaurura, has announced that only five buses will be cleared daily to transport Zimbabwean returnees from the neighbouring country.Chaurura said thi...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Beitbridge Border Post
THERE was chaos at the Beitbridge Border Post yesterday where returnee Zimbabweans experienced delayed entry amid fears of another COVID-19 outbreak.On the South African side, there were long ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 3568 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border buses chaos
THE movement of cross-border buses transporting Zimbabweans returning from South Africa will with effect from tomorrow be first cleared by the Zimbabwe Embassy in the neighbouring country. The...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 3623 | by Staff reporter
Zimra finally clears stranded travellers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) staff in Beitbridge have finally processed the customs procedures for 366 Zimbabweans returning from South Africa in 12 buses whom they had refused to clear on S...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 504 | by Staff writer
Border reopening poser for Mnangagwa
On Tuesday, Cabinet announced the phased reopening of land borders, starting with the country's main ports of entry - Beitbridge, Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Chirundu, Nyamapanda and Forbes.Howe...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 18:17hrs | 9062 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records another Covid-19 death
ONE more Covid-19 related death was reported in Matabeleland South bringing to 233 the number of people who have succumbed to the pandemic in Zimbabwe.The Ministry of Health and Child Care sai...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:09hrs | 2819 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants get 40% cost of living cushion
The latest 40 percent cost-of-living salary adjustment by the Government will be paid into the bank accounts of civil servants starting today, while negotiations continue with unions representing civi...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1344 | by Staff reporter
Confusion hits schools restart
CONFUSION has hit the reopening of schools, with teachers refusing to return to classes until government offers them a good salary deal.Schools, which closed in March following the outbreak of...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 4233 | by Staff reporter
Marked decline in SA returnees
THE South African government's relaxation of Covid19 restrictions to Level 1 has seen a reduction in Zimbabwean nationals seeking to be repatriated home, Zimbabwe's chief envoy to South Africa, Ambass...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
No Covid deaths in Zimbabwe for a week
ZIMBABWE has gone for seven consecutive days without recording any Covid-19 deaths amid reports that 35 new cases were recorded on Thursday. Statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
2 new Covid-19 related deaths recorded in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has recorded two new Covid-19 related deaths and 182 new cases, bringing the total number of cases to 7 298 in the last 24-hour cycle. The total number of deaths, which were recorded ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:20hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 measures relaxed
Returning residents tested within 48 hours before their return have since last Friday been allowed to self-quarantine at home if that test was negative rather than stay in a quarantine centre while th...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1866 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to reduce quarantine period to 2 days
GOVERNMENT is working on reducing to two days the turnaround period for people, especially foreigners on transit, kept in quarantine centres while waiting for Covid-19 results. The Polymerase ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 2987 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires drones for border surveillance
GOVERNMENT has acquired drones for surveillance and patrolling of the country's porous borders as part of efforts to capacitate security personnel in addressing security challenges posed by border jum...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
11 more die of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
ELEVEN more people have died of Covid-19, bringing the death toll from the virus to 166 in Zimbabwe.According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, 126 more people tested positive yesterda...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1188 | by Staff reporter
Communities plunged into vulnerability
The prevailing harsh economic conditions coupled with the devastating impacts of climate change have plunged communities into the doldrums of vulnerability. Habakkuk Trust in its latest ...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:46hrs | 313 | by Stephen Jakes
Pressure at quarantine centres eases
With most Zimbabweans stranded in foreign countries at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic now home, the pressure on the formal quarantine centres for returning residents has eased freeing resources. ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling groceries from SA new Covid-19 frontier
FOR most families in Zimbabwe, the days leading to month-end are a painful slog because the meagre salaries people earn do not last the distance.As soon as the funds run out, the rat race begi...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:02hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Over 6 000 kombis impounded
Over 6 000 kombis and pirate taxis have been impounded countrywide for violating Covid-19 regulations, as police reiterated that inter-city travel remained banned unless the traveller has exceptional ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:44hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
'No human rights violations in Zimbabwe'
Permanent Secretary of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, has rubbished claims that there are human rights violations in the southern African country."There are no...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 20:52hrs | 566 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Drones, choppers to police Zimbabweans borders
THE Government is mobilising resources to procure drones, helicopters including all-terrain vehicles to improve the efficacy of patrols along the country's borders with neighbouring countries. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans inmates' visits
Government is decongesting prisons and has banned visitors for prisoners following a surge in Covid-19 cases among inmates and prison officers, especially in Bulawayo, Information, Publicity and Broad...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:50hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
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