ZIMBABWE has imported 245 top-quality genetics pig breeding stock from South Africa in an effort to improve the country’s pork production. The breeding stocks, which were imported under the European Union-funded Value Chain Alliance for Livestock Upgrading and Empowerment (Value), consist of duroc, landrace and large white breeds. Value team leader Newton Chari said the…
©️ AS EXPECTED, President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended the national coronavirus lockdown by 14 days yesterday, after the country failed to meet the six core World Health Organisation (WHO) conditions for lifting the stay-at-home order, the Daily News reports. This will see the lockdown, which was initially due to end yesterday, continuing to run until midnight…
©️ RESIDENTS have called for consistency and transparency in the distribution of subsidised roller meal during the lockdown period. Last week, the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) launched the zonal distribution of subsidised mealie-meal in residential areas in an effort to curb the movement of people in search of the scarce commodity during lockdown….
©️ ASSOCIATED Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), publishers of the Daily News and Daily News On Sunday — have paid tribute to its much-loved Assistant Editor, Gift Phiri — who died in the capital yesterday. Phiri, 44, died at a local hospital yesterday morning after his health deteriorated at the weekend. His is survived by a…
©️ THE copy and paste approach being adopted from Europe by most African countries will not work the same as situations are different. During an online media briefing International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Regional Director for Africa Simon Missiri said Africa is faced with a lot of challenges that European…
©️ A NEW private Covid-19 centre, which will treat patients for free and has a capacity of 30 beds, is set to officially open today in Milton Park, Harare. This comes as the global pandemic is beginning to manifest itself more widely within the country, more so now that children are among the people who…
THE ministry of Health has intensified efforts to curb the spread of Malaria in Matabeleland South Province as cases continue to rise, the Daily News on Sunday can report. To date, the province has recorded 716 cases of the disease with Beitbridge and Gwanda being the hardest hit. Matabeleland South provincial medical director Rudo Chikodzere…
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…
Maxwell Sibanda – ZIMBABWEANS from all walks of life are of the opinion the current 21-day lockdown which is nearing its third week should be extended so as to allow more testing by health officials. In extending the lockdown, they have also called on government to introduce safety nets that will see that no citizen…
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…
