Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have announced a new set of fines — as they battle to curb soaring coronavirus deaths and infections in the country — including hefty penalties for not wearing masks in public and breaching the current dusk-to-dawn curfew. Under the new fines, those who are caught not wearing a…
Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has set up a crack unit to investigate laboratories issuing fake Covid-19 PCR test certificates. This comes as there has been a huge proliferation of laboratories caught on the wrong side of the law after their staffers have been implicated in fake Covid-19 certificates scandals….
Tariro Sajeni RESPECTED medical doctor and University of Zimbabwe (UZ) researcher James Gita Hakim, pictured, passed away yesterday after succumbing to Covid-19 in Harare. Hakim passed away at St Anne’s Hospital in the capital after having been admitted there for the past two weeks. The erudite professor was the director of the UZ Clinical Research…
LIBERATION stalwart, and the only surviving member of Zanu PF’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, has lashed out at the former liberation movement for continuing to play down the key roles of some late freedom fighters. Yesterday, Gumbo — one of the founding members of the ruling party — added that…
ONE of the country’s top medical experts, Solwayo Ngwenya, who has been among the leading voices with regards to educating and warning Zimbabweans about the lethal coronavirus, has come under heavy attack on social media for this work. But speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the highly regarded acting chief executive of Mpilo Hospital brushed…
RUSSIA and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating COVID-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare’s ability to afford the shots, with plans for meetings with business leaders who have offered to pay for them. Authorities in the impoverished southern African nation are scrambling to contain the accelerating spread of the coronavirus….
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has called on all local political parties to unite in the fighting against Covid-19 as Zimbabwe’s new infections and deaths continue to rise. As at January 24, 2021, Zimbabwe had 31 320 confirmed cases, including 22 250 recoveries and 1 005 deaths. With authorities battling to contain the deadly coronavirus,…
Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw HOPES that national dialogue may soon finally take place, to help resolve Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crises, were raised further after opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, said yesterday that he would soon reach out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and others in this regard. Speaking to the Daily News, the…
MANY decent Zimbabweans have been shocked by the depth of depravity that has been exhibited by a few pinheads who have In truth, this primitive behaviour was entirely expected as this has, unfortunately, become the reality of present-day Zimbabwe. Thus, we will all have to fight very hard if this barbaric mindset is ever to…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (Sona), saying it equally shares the optimism on the country’s ability to effectively respond to the upsurge in Covid-19 fatalities. In his address on Saturday, Mnangagwa reaffirmed his commitment to save the people of Zimbabwe from the…
