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Hospitals brace for Covid storm … as numbers of critically ill patients surge

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REFERRAL hospitals are starting to discharge patients with less life-threatening conditions, while also being more selective about who gets admitted, to create space for people suffering from coronavirus — as the lethal respiratory disease threatens to spiral out of control in the country. Among the major health institutions taking these measures is Zimbabwe’s biggest referral…

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Life & Arts

ExQ, Nutty O in Covid bind

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POPULAR musicians, ExQ and Nutty O, have landed in hot water after they were arrested for allegedly presenting fake Covid-19 certificates at the Robert Mugabe International Airport, after performing in neighbouring South Africa recently. ExQ — whose real name is Enock Munhenga — and Nutty O (Carrington Simbarashe Chiwadzwa) were not asked to plead to…

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ED, Mwonzora join forces in PAP campaign

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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora have agreed to join forces to canvass support from other African countries for Chief Fortune Charumbira’s Pan-African Parliament (PAP) presidency bid. Charumbira will battle it out with Haidara Aichata Cisse from Mali and South Sudan’s Albino Mathom Ayuel Aboug when PAP reconvenes in October to choose a…

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Police intensify war on armed robbers

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POLICE shot dead one armed robber and wounded three others in separate incidents at the weekend as authorities launched a full scale war against violent crime in the country. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned criminals that his government would come down hard on them. It also comes amid a spike in the…

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Job Sikhala’s bid to have charges quashed flops

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HARARE regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje has thrown out MDC Alliance Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala’s application in which he sought to have his charges of publishing falsehoods quashed. Through his lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, Sikhala had applied for the quashing of the charges, arguing that the High Court had declared that there was no such an…

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Sport

Another football legend passes on

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THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) yesterday led the way in paying glowing tributes to former Warriors coach and captain Misheck “Scania” Chidzambwa following his untimely death on Thursday evening. Chidzambwa, 66, who is younger brother to the legendary former player and coach Sunday, died at a private hospital in Chitungwiza after a long battle with…

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Editorial Comment

Health delivery system needs adequate funding at all times

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IT is common knowledge that Zimbabwe’s health sector is saddled with challenges such as deteriorating infrastructure and loss of experienced personnel, a situation which has precipitated a drastic decline in the quality of health services for almost two decades. That why its beggar belief that the severely under-resourced health sector utilised just one percent of…

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‘Change school calendar’

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TEACHERS’ unions have called on the government to change the school calendar so that learners do not go to school in winter, as the Covid-19 virus spreads easily during the cold weather periods. This comes as the country is reeling in the throes of rising Covid-19 infections, as learning institutions have also become hotspots, forcing…

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Prophet arrested for ‘raping’ duo

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A SELF-STYLED prophet has been arrested for raping two women that had sought help from him in their quest to conceive. Tichaona Matarutse was not asked to plead to the allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi yesterday. He was remanded in custody to July 7 and was advised to apply for bail…

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