©️ FINANCIAL services outfit, FBC Holdings Limited, at the weekend said it was temporarily shutting down five of its branches in Harare and Victoria Falls in an effort to control the spread of the Coronavirus. The epidemic, which started in China three months ago, has killed thousands of people across the world including a prominent…
©️ ECOSURE has announced plans to immediately support the country’s national health delivery system by equipping frontline medical staff with protective equipment as the country battles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The innovative insurance solutions provider has also pledged to give medical workers life and health insurance in addition to safe transport to and from…
©️ THE government has exempted coal miners, critical in the generation of electricity, from the national lockdown that begins today. In a statement yesterday, Mines minister Winston Chitando said coal mining companies were exempt from the lockdown. “Notwithstanding the exemption, the companies are obliged to observe the key principles of the above order in fighting…
©️ THERE are fears that the 21-day national lockdown announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday night to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country could hit poor Zimbabweans very hard. Experts and ordinary people who spoke to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday said as necessary as the lockdown is —…
©️ THE government is scrounging around for at least US$100 million to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country, the Daily News on Sunday can reveal. This comes as the number of people who have been infected by the virus in Zimbabwe continues to rise, after the country recorded new cases —…
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track down people who arrived from high-risk nations and are possibly infected by coronavirus (Covid-19). In a letter to the minister of Health…
TEACHERS have appealed to the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to postpone examination registration to avoid the spread of the deadly coronavirus when headmasters travel to provincial and district centres to submit the required papers. Deadlines for payment of examination fees are March 30, 2020 for the June examinations and April 9, 2020 for the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, last night announced that the country would go on a 21-day total shutdown as part of measures to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) which has so far killed one Zimbabwean, the Daily News reports. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa immediately welcomed the lockdown, saying it was “necessary, wise and…
HARARE municipal police were given temporary arresting powers through the SI 77 of 2020 as the fight against Covid-19 intensifies in the country with local authorities shutting down vending markets as a way to decongest and curb the spread of the deadly virus. Statutory Instrument (SI) 77 of 2020 authorises any local authority to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday gazetted conditions of a presidential pardon that is meant to benefit thousands of prisoners across the country as government moves to decongest prisons. This comes after Cabinet recently approved a proposal to have a general amnesty to decongest the country’s prisons, which currently house 22 000 prisoners against a carrying capacity…
