©️ THORNGROVE Infectious Diseases Hospital, the city’s main isolation centre, still has no Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a ventilator, critical in the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19), Mayor Solomon Mguni has said. In a weekly update outlining the activities the City of Bulawayo is undertaking to tackle Covid-19, Mguni said Bulawayo continued to face a…
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi says Botswana is ambushing the government by deporting Zimbabweans without giving prior notice, a development posing a challenge regarding quarantining them, the Daily News reports. Speaking after touring isolation and quarantine centres in Plumtree at the weekend, Mohadi, who is the national chairperson of the ministerial taskforce on coronavirus (Covid-19), expressed concern…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa extended the national coronavirus lockdown by another two weeks on Friday. The Daily News on Sunday journalists Vasco Chaya and Annie Mpalume went into the streets of Harare to find out what people are saying about the extension of the lockdown, a measure taken to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus…
PREGNANT women are now struggling to access health facilities as public transport has become scarce during the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown, forcing many of them to walk long distances to access prenatal care. In urban areas and because of the current lockdown, pregnant women have missed their check-ups and prenatal care while those who had booked…
DOCTORS have urged the government to work on improving the turnaround time of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test results for coronavirus (Covid-19) which they say is way too long. PCR tests are being done to check for the presence of Covid-19 in human beings. So far in Zimbabwe results have been taking between two and…
AMID a proliferation of money laundering and illicit foreign currency dealings on the black market, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Friday directed banks to freeze over 100 accounts linked to mobile money transfer platforms that are suspected to be at the heart of the illegal practices. This comes as the apex bank, through…
Maxwell Sibanda AS Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating this year’s World Press Freedom Day commemorations today (3 May) there are fears that the current global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will see media houses streaming operations with others closing shop altogether. This year’s commemorations come on the backdrop of Zimbabwe’s 40 years of…
THOUSANDS of Zimbabwean health workers might have left the country to seek greener pastures in the United Kingdom but with the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) ravaging that country many are now dying far from home and being buried by strangers. While four people have succumbed to the deadly virus in Zimbabwe, in the UK, 29 Zimbabweans,…
AFTER waiting close to two hours for transport to get into town, Elijah Matambu was excited that a Zupco bus had finally come to his rescue. Coming all the way from Dangamvura suburb, Matambu was going to Mutare Hospital to restock his Type Two diabetes supplies that were running low. However, little did he know…
AROUND the world, as countries, including Zimbabwe, have gone into lockdown to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the noble and commendable effort to save lives has unintentionally given life to another pre-existing social ill, Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Since the announcement of the Zimbabwe’s national lockdown on March 30, over 2 000 cases of…
