©️ 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…
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…
THE government has begun testing about 1 000 people a day, as it ramps up its efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the country, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as the number of people who have tested positive for the lethal disease in the country is on the increase. The…
IN A development that has hampered efforts by the ministry of Health to prepare national health institutions for the fight against Covid-19, government has revealed that it has a serious shortage of hospital equipment technicians, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes after the World Health Organisation (WHO) set six conditions for any government…
FOR Zimbabwe, if life begins at 40, it is beginning on a sour and sad note. The streets of Harare, the capital city, are deserted, and time, in its relentless march, seems to have been frozen by the deadly coronavirus pandemic that forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa to enforce a 21-day lockdown. Thus the country’s 40th…
©️ HEALTH experts warned anew yesterday that Zimbabwe’s coronavirus crisis could worsen in the coming weeks — more so now that children are among the people who are contracting the lethal disease in the country. The experts who spoke to the Daily News said one of the dangers associated with children contracting the virus was…
©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told Zimbabweans not to despair in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country is witnessing swelling numbers of people who have contracted the killer virus — which has seen the scrapping of today’s 40th Independence celebrations, among other key events. In his…
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…
