CONFEDERATION of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) president Denford Mutashu has urged law enforcement agencies to shut down all businesses that are failing to comply with lockdown regulations put in place to curb the spread of the global Covid-19 pandemic. This comes after the government introduced strict lockdown measures, which allowed only essential business to operate from…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS THE country’s coronavirus infections continue to spike alarmingly, authorities have been urged to further tighten the current stay-at-home order — amid growing ill-discipline by ordinary people. Health experts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday also implored the police to restore the security checkpoints that were there during Zimbabwe’s first hard…
Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala is expected to appear in court today following his arrest at the weekend for allegedly peddling falsehoods on social media. The garrulous Zengeza West legislator was arrested at the Harare Magistrates’ Court after he allegedly tweeted comments regarding a widely-circulated video of a…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is concerned at the low uptake of female condoms at a time cases of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) are spiking. This comes as National Aids Council (Nac) figures reveal that women are leading in the number of new STI infections as people were indulging in risky sexual…
Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw ACTING Local Government minister Jenfan Muswere has called on the public to avoid crossing flooded rivers and bridges following incidents in which numerous people have been swept away while others have been marooned. Some provinces in the country continue to receive incessant rains which have resulted in flooding in…
HOPE is high that Zimbabwe’s much-talked about national dialogue could finally start in earnest this year, following recent political developments and hints to this effect by both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the country’s new opposition leader, Douglas Mwonzora. Analysts who spoke to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday said Mnangagwa and Mwonzora’s pronouncements of the…
DOCTORS yesterday implored authorities to prioritise acquiring Covid-19 vaccines as the lethal virus continued to kill more Zimbabweans, amid rising infections in the country. This comes as 22 people succumbed to the respiratory disease on Friday alone as the number of people infected by the novel virus — since it was first reported in…
POLICE are worried with the continued arrest and interception of people moving around with fake Covid-19 PCR test certificates as Zimbabwe continues to battle the spread of the pandemic. Numerous people are now being arrested at most border posts with forged PCR tests certificates intending to leave Zimbabwe for neighbouring countries like South Africa and…
TAMARI CHIKIWA SOME informal traders, vendors and small businesses in Bulawayo are sneaking back onto the streets despite the current 30-day strict lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19. Under the regulations of the lockdown, only businesses offering essential services are allowed to operate from 8am until 3pm. A dusk-to-dawn curfew…
Tamari Chikiwa FEAR and uncertainty cloud the world as the renewed Covid 19 threat characterised by new variant strains of the pandemic has resulted in many countries effecting stringent lockdowns. Zimbabwe also reintroduced tough lockdown restrictions following an upsurge in infections and deaths which have been attributed to a second wave of the pandemic….
