Mugove Tafirenyika and Shamiso Dzingire STAFF WRITERS ©️ THE government will enlist the services of security forces and private hospitals as it moves to test tens of thousands of people nationally for the lethal coronavirus in the coming weeks, the Daily News reports. This comes after the High Court ruled in favour of doctors on…
Sindiso Mhlophe STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE government is set to gazette a new law which removes duty on all imports of critical coronavirus (Covid-19) materials and subsidised basic commodities, as it moves to mitigate the spread of the pandemic. This comes as the government has indicated that it is set to roll out…
©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sued for failing to provide emergency relief to impoverished Zimbabweans after implementing the national lockdown to contain spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19). In an application filed by Tendai Biti Law on behalf of Harare North legislator Allan Norman Markham and activist Mfundo Mlilo, Health minister Obadiah Moyo, Finance minister…
©️ AT LEAST 14 Zimbabweans are among the 12 000 coronavirus deaths recorded in the United Kingdom (UK), an official has said. Speaking to the Daily News, deputy ambassador to UK, Elisha Karodza said after tracking the information from different sources, the embassy has managed to account for 14 Zimbabwean deaths due to coronavirus as…
ZIMBABWE is set to benefit from a United Nations coronavirus (Covid-19) consignment for its health workers, the global health organ confirmed. This comes as the continent has reported over 15 000 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the deadly virus was detected in the Chinese province of Wuhan in December last year. “The first UN Solidarity…
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has backed President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying everyone peddling false news on coronavirus (Covid-19) must face the full wrath of the law. The MDC secretary-general Chalton Hwende yesterday told the Daily News that it’s not time to play politics but to unite in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. “Those spreading fake…
MPILO Central Hospital and the National University of Science and Technology’s (Nust) Applied Genetic Testing Centre (AGTC) on Sunday commenced testing coronavirus Covid-19 samples as part of the government’s decentralisation of screening and testing services for the deadly virus. Mpilo in conjunction with Nust’s AGTC will be testing samples from Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South,…
TROUBLE is brewing in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC faction as the party’s current secretary-general Nixon Nyikadzino is determined to scupper efforts by opposition stalwarts Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora to lead a process towards an extraordinary congress, the Daily News can report. Armed with a Supreme Court judgment that ordered the MDC to revert to…
ALTHOUGH residents’ associations recently won cases against the Local Government, Finance, Health ministries and local authorities where they sought orders to push for the availability of potable water, they remain deprived of the precious liquid. The High Court duly ordered the respective ministries to fulfil their duties with the Finance ministry being ordered to provide…
A BULAWAYO court has ordered a woman who last week fatally axed her husband to death following a tiff over a television channel, to be taken for psychiatric evaluation. Ordetta Mpofu, 44, from Emganwini suburb allegedly murdered her husband Thembani Mpofu, 52, for failure to reprimand his daughter earlier that evening as they argued over…
