HEALTH experts have implored authorities to do more to discourage many members of the public from continuing with their worrying complacency with…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday re-instated a national dusk-to-dawn curfew, as Zimbabwe battles a seemingly more deadly coronavirus third wave that has left the country’s creaking health system severely stretched. The new and stricter management measures for the virulent respiratory disease see the country moving to Level Four of the lockdown, which obliges businesses to…

AUTHORITIES look set to further tighten the country’s coronavirus measures amid spiralling cases of the lethal respiratory disease, as well as a…

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…

THE Health ministry utilised one percent of its 2019 budget of over $100 million leading to the non-implementation of key programmes including the purchase of ambulances and medicines, an auditor general’s report has revealed.  The auditor-general Mildred Chiri’s 2019 audit report tabled before Parliament last week attributed the development to Treasury’s failure to release funds…

ARMED robbers hijacked a Beitbridge-bound bus early yesterday morning before making away with over US$16 000 from the passengers in Chatsworth, Masvingo.  The robbers, believed to have been six, posed as passengers on the Boundary Express bus before pulling out a gun and ordering the driver to pull over into a secluded place in Chatsworth. …

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says authorities will come down hard on armed robbers and drug peddlers as the government fights to create a safe and prosperous Zimbabwe.Speaking at the burial of the late prominent Roman Catholic cleric, Father Emmanuel Ribeiro, at the National Heroes’ Acre yesterday, Mnangagwa also said the government would leave no stone unturned…

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he still holds the keys to President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding in turning around the country’s fitful economy and normalising Zimbabwe’s lukewarm relations with the West. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, after presidential spokesperson George Charamba said last week that Chamisa should banish any thoughts of…