RAYMOND SIXPENCE – WHILE Zimbabwean farm workers continue to face unprecedented challenges during this coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, they are still working each day to make sure everyone has access to food. Throughout the lockdown, farm workers have been making sacrifices to ensure that food is readily available to consumers throughout this crisis; we applaud their…
Price hikes that have been witnessed in the country during the ongoing Covid-19-induced lockdown are threatening the viability of mobile network operators (MNOs) barely a month after the telecommunications sector got a tariff adjustment.In early March, the sector was awarded a 56.64% tariff adjustment by regulator the Postal and Telecommunications Regulator of Zimbabwe (Potraz) after…
By Guo Shaochun ON April 18 2020, China and Zimbabwe celebrated 40 years of diplomatic ties. This is a momentous occasion to take stock and plan for the future. As I look back on all the historic things we have been able to do together, one question keeps popping up. What is the essence of…
IT is worrying to note the clear defiance of national lockdown measures in most cities and towns since President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended the shutdown by 14 days on Sunday to contain the deadly coronavirus. There has been increased vehicular and human traffic across the cities and towns, a serious blow to the fight against the…
Lydia Namubiru – THE year I turned 11, my uncle Josiah Ssesanga was admitted to a hospital in Uganda with meningitis. It was 1994, and he was HIV positive. Between him and death stood a tattered post-civil war health system. Treatments for HIV and Aids existed in other parts of the world, but in Uganda…
Continued from yesterday Zania Stamataki – The Goldilocks principle applies here: if the mutations are too subtle, the viral coat will be easily identified by existing antibodies, whereas if they are too drastic they might simply inactivate the virus. The mutations that allow viruses to fly under the radar fall somewhere in between. Influenza viruses,…
Zania Stamataki – ED NEWMAN walked to the podium with the calm confidence of a soldier and welcomed us with humility. His audience was 20 virology researchers preparing to lead groups in universities around the UK in 2016. Newman, then a Porton Down-based virologist for Public Health England, had seen more action than all of…
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…
EVER since the coronavirus (Covid-19) became a global pandemic, sports stars around the world have been at the forefront of making various donations in combating the disease. Global sporting stars like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robert Lewandowski, Drew Brees, Roger Federer and Shahid Afridi have all donated numerous millions of United States dollars…
Guo Shaochun – IN the battle against pandemic, information sharing is as vital as effective drugs. From the very onset of Covid-19, China has made unreserved, transparent, and timely communication a crucial component of its fighting strategy. While it was hard enough just to mount a sufficient response to such an unknown pandemic, China has…
