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Zacc goes after rogue laboratories  

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Tariro Sajeni  STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw  THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has set up a crack unit to investigate laboratories issuing fake Covid-19 PCR test certificates.  This comes as there has been a huge proliferation of laboratories caught on the wrong side of the law after their staffers have been implicated in fake Covid-19 certificates scandals….

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Respected medical professor dies

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Tariro Sajeni  RESPECTED medical doctor and University of Zimbabwe (UZ) researcher James Gita Hakim, pictured,  passed away yesterday after succumbing to Covid-19 in Harare. Hakim passed away at St Anne’s Hospital in the capital after having been admitted there for the past two weeks. The erudite professor was the director of the UZ Clinical Research…

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No to social media abuse in corona fight

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WE LIVE in a surreal world, a globe where false information peddlers are using social media to debase human dignity. The purveyors of false information, disguised as news, have shown no respect for the sanctity of human life, especially in the last two weeks when Covid-19 started ravaging the country with a vengeance. News is…

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Heroes choices outrage Rugare Gumbo

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LIBERATION stalwart, and the only surviving member of Zanu PF’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, has lashed out at the former liberation movement for continuing to play down the key roles of some late freedom fighters. Yesterday, Gumbo — one of the founding members of the ruling party — added that…

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Trolls aim guns at noted doctor

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ONE of the country’s top medical experts, Solwayo Ngwenya, who has been among the leading voices with regards to educating and warning Zimbabweans about the lethal coronavirus, has come under heavy attack on social media for this work. But speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the highly regarded acting chief executive of Mpilo Hospital brushed…

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Zimbabwe gets vaccine offers from Russia, China

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RUSSIA and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating COVID-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare’s ability to afford the shots, with plans for meetings with business leaders who have offered to pay for them. Authorities in the impoverished southern African nation are scrambling to contain the accelerating spread of the coronavirus….

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Mwonzora calls for unity in Covid-19 fight

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  MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has called on all local political parties to unite in the fighting against Covid-19 as Zimbabwe’s new infections and deaths continue to rise. As at January 24, 2021, Zimbabwe had 31 320 confirmed cases, including 22 250 recoveries and 1 005 deaths. With authorities battling to contain the deadly coronavirus,…

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Covid-19 patient sues government over burial restrictions

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A COVID-19 patient has taken the government to court contesting recent burial restrictions as he claims they would violate his cultural beliefs in the event that he dies and is not buried at his rural home. This comes after the ministry of Health on January 11 imposed restrictions on the movement of Covid-19 victims and…

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Gumbura suffers another setback

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JAILED rapist Robert Martin Gumbura suffered his first New Year setback after the High Court struck his bail appeal off the roll on a technicality. Gumbura was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in 2017 and the term was halved last year after he had noted an appeal against the sentence and conviction. However, Gumbura was…

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US$2,7m robbery mastermind’s son nabbed

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  A SON of the alleged mastermind of the US$2,7million heist has been nabbed on allegations of concealing US$100 000 in a pit at their rural home in Mhondoro. Job Njowa, 23, was not asked to plead to allegations of obstruction the course of justice and was remanded in custody to today for bail ruling….

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