Zimbabwe has raised 500 million Zimbabwe dollars in treasury bill auctions that it will use to help combat the spread of the coronavirus, finance minister Mthuli Ncube said on Wednesday. The outbreak has hit...
Zimbabwe has ordered 1.5 million COVID-19 test kits from Novacyt, the London-listed biotech company has announced. The shipment to Zimbabwe is the company’s largest contract outside the United Kingdom so far, said the firm....
Government will focus its testing strategy on returning citizens after the number of COVID-19 cases in the country more than doubled to 132. All but one of 76 new cases were detected from samples...
The capital’s main COVID-19 treatment centre does not have intensive care unit (ICU) personnel to manage critically ill patients, a City of Harare epidemiology report has revealed. Harare’s 12 active coronavirus cases are the...
The COVID-19 pandemic will drive sub Saharan Africa into its first recession in 25 years, a World Bank paper says, but the region’s ‘copycat’ responses, which include lockdowns as well as some monetary and fiscal measures are...
Zimbabwe will use GeneXpert machines, normally used to diagnose tuberculosis, to conduct rapid tests for the novel coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Sunday. The country, which has 14 confirmed COVID-19 cases and three...
Old Mutual Zimbabwe is to provide Z$2 billion worth of life cover to health workers on the frontline of the coronavirus fight, the country’s largest insurer says. CEO Sam Matsekete said Old Mutual...
By Washington Samukange and Chancelar Kafere The current global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has resulted in over 80 000 deaths worldwide. There is no specific treatment, outside of supportive care, that has...
Minister of Health and Child Care, Obadiah Moyo, held a press conference late Monday afternoon to update the country on COVID-19, hours after neighbouring South Africa confirmed its 62nd case. Here are the...
In 2008 and 2009, as Zimbabwe’s worst cholera outbreak was ravaging the country, leaving over 4,000 people dead, donors helped revive the collapsing public health system by paying medical professionals’ salaries. A decade later,...
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