THE Health and Childcare ministry has raised concerns over private clinics claiming to be Covid-19 health facilities without getting approval from the government, saying they are a danger to society. Health and Childcare permanent secretary Agnes Mahomva told a press conference in Harare yesterday that private practitioners were welcome to support the management of Covid-19…
IT’S looking increasingly unlikely that the government will meet its ambitious target of testing 33 000 people countrywide for the deadly coronavirus by the end of this month. This has prompted health experts to warn in interviews with the Daily News at the weekend that such a failure could have disastrous consequences for the country,…
DESPITE the uncertainty surrounding the dates for the re-opening of schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, some private institutions have already hiked their fees for the second term, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government is preparing to introduce far-reaching regulations for all schools, including cutting the number of students per class, to…
Maxwell Sibanda Assistant Editor SINCE the national lockdown which commenced on 30 March, the Parliament of Zimbabwe has not performed its oversight role; hence the Executive has been making its own decision regarding the Covid-19 pandemic without the advice of the legislature. Analysts believe Members of Parliament should device ways to meet, even not physically,…
THE Chinese government yesterday said it would be deploying medical experts to Zimbabwe as part of helping authorities combat the spread of the lethal coronavirus (Covid-19), the Daily News reports. This comes as China, from where the first case of Covid-19 was reported — has successfully contained the disease after imposing strict stay-at-home regulations. Minister-counsellor…
PRESSURE is mounting on Nelson Chamisa and his close allies, as more MDC stalwarts start to pull away from the charismatic politician, in the simmering war for the soul of the country’s main opposition party. This comes as the Daily News On Sunday has confirmed that authorities will release $7,5 million due to the MDC…
ZIMBABWE has 28 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and not 29 as previously reported, the Health ministry has said. In an update released on Thursday, the ministry said it erroneously recorded a result in Bulawayo as a new case when in actual fact it was a retest on a patient that had previously tested positive for…
POLICE have arrested an MDC Alliance councillor for calling President Emmerson Mnangagwa a “fool” in a WhatsApp message. Chrispen Rambu, 39, the MDC Alliance councillor for Ward 8 in Chipinge, was arrested on Friday and has been charged with insulting the Head of State. In the WhatsApp message, Rambu compared Mnangagwa with South African President…
“WE WILL open when real life is no longer a movie,” reads a poster outside a movie house, forced to shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed over 150 000 lives globally. Like an apocalyptic horror movie, the virus has devoured people across the world at an alarming rate. Across…
THE government said yesterday it is further tightening its national coronavirus lockdown measures, by clamping down on unnecessary travel between the country’s urban and rural areas. The move — which is part of the fight by authorities against the global pandemic — comes as the government is frantically trying to trace people who made contact…
