CIMAS Medical Aid Society (Cimas) has announced it will provide any of its members who tests positive for Covid-19 with medical aid cover for subsequent treatment and clearance tests at the end of their treatment. The cover, which is subject to the benefit levels provided for in the member’s medical aid package, includes admission to…
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is set to rehabilitate 969 boreholes under the emergency response programme. Drilling of the boreholes is part of Zinwa’s emergency response programme to help the country contain and roll back the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, which has claimed thousands of lives globally. The programme comes after Treasury…
THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has revealed that Zimbabweans living with HIV in neighbouring countries have been left stranded as they are no longer able to access their antiretroviral (ARV) drug supplies due to the Covid-19 lockdown. CWGH director Itai Rusike said, previously, those in need of medication would have their relatives send…
THE government’s exclusive focus on containing the Covid-19 pandemic could expose the country’s health sector to other more deadly diseases that are being neglected, experts have warned. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is working around the clock and channeling most of its resources to fight the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 330…
GOSPEL prodigy Tinashe Chivaviro has released his second song video titled Musavasiye which was shot in Zimbabwe, South Africa and United States of America. The song is off his debut album of the same title released early this year, from which he also shot a video for the song Nguva dzaMwari. The young singer said he wrote the…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️ WITH Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises deepening, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) have once again implored authorities to engage the MDC to end the country’s myriad challenges, the Daily News reports. This comes as the international spotlight is once again on the…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) on Tuesday received personal protective equipment donations from a group of Zimbabweans living abroad which will assist in the fight against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The donation comprised 25 litres of sanitisers, 80 green bar soaps, 260 medical masks and 30 boxes of gloves, and was handed over by the Christian…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has given relief to employers by deferring payment of increased levies to June 1 instead of the beginning of the year to cushion companies negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This comes after the government gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 108 of 2020 which…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw A SOLDIER was allegedly caught pants down trying to rape a woman in a tuckshop at Domboshava Training Centre during the national coronavirus lockdown, a court heard yesterday. Maxwell Munyikwa appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa charged with attempted rape and was granted $500 bail with conditions not to interfere…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa finally wielded the axe on Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi on Wednesday. The junior minister had become a danger to the country’s international image, spewing vitriol on issues of global attention like the deadly coronavirus and last week’s alleged abduction of MDC youth leaders Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova. So…
