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LONG-SUFFERING Zimbabweans, supermarkets and pharmacies are more and more feeling the deepening negative effects of the country’s economic chaos and the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as the national lockdowns in Zimbabwe and South Africa have contributed to major supply chain headaches locally, with some pharmaceutical products and basic goods…

THE government has begun testing about 1 000 people a day, as it ramps up its efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the country, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as the number of people who have tested positive for the lethal disease in the country is on the increase. The…

IN A development that has hampered efforts by the ministry of Health to prepare national health institutions for the fight against Covid-19, government has revealed that it has a serious shortage of hospital equipment technicians, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes after the World Health Organisation (WHO) set six conditions for any government…

©️ HEALTH experts warned anew yesterday that Zimbabwe’s coronavirus crisis could worsen in the coming weeks — more so now that children are among the people who are contracting the lethal disease in the country. The experts who spoke to the Daily News said one of the dangers associated with children contracting the virus was…

©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told Zimbabweans not to despair in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country is witnessing swelling numbers of people who have contracted the killer virus — which has seen the scrapping of today’s 40th Independence celebrations, among other key events. In his…

THE government has invoked the Civil Protection Act with immediate effect, paving way for it to take charge of all council-run hospitals as they scale up efforts to contain Covid-19 which has claimed three lives and infected 24 people in the country. The Civil Protection Act empowers all provincial development coordinators, formerly provincial administrators, to…

POLICE commissioner-general Godwin Matanga yesterday argued that journalists who do not offer broadcasting and “Internet” services did not fit the category of essential services and should stay at home during the lockdown period, the High Court heard. The Media and Information Commission and Matanga are respondents in a matter which Media Institute of Southern Africa…

Mugove Tafirenyika and Fungi Kwaramba STAFF WRITERS ©️  HEALTH experts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa should extend the current national coronavirus lockdown as Zimbabwe has not yet met any of the six conditions set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to end the stay-at-home order. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the health experts said it…

THERE are growing concerns for Bulawayo, with the City of Kings threatening to become the epicentre of coronavirus in Zimbabwe, following a surge here in the number of people infected by the lethal disease. The secretary general of the Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA), Arron Musara, was among those who told the Daily News yesterday…