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LOCAL authorities across the country are bracing for the coronavirus outbreak by intensifying preparedness and response measures despite Zimbabwe being in the clear for now, the Daily News reports. Harare City Council has partnered with Ecosure and distributed foot pedalled hand washing basins for the city’s busy areas to fight the spread of Covid-19, while Chitungwiza municipality…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday introduced a raft of measures aimed at mitigating the effects of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that is wreaking havoc around the world, the Daily News reports. Among the tough measures that he took were an immediate ban on all public gatherings of more than 100 people for the next 60…

THE United Kingdom (UK) will not bail out Zimbabwe until President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government embarks on comprehensive political and economic reforms, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe’s re-engagement efforts with Western powers appear to have hit a brick wall, after the United States of America, the European Union (EU) and the UK recently…

TWO travellers who were in isolation at Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare over suspicions of having the coronavirus have tested negative, the Daily News reports. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared the deadly coronavirus a national emergency while suspending social gatherings of more than 100 people to mitigate the spread of the…

HARARE City Council (HCC) has reviewed its housing policy and immediately banned the selling of land through housing cooperatives following an upsurge of illicit housing deals with land barons being at the centre stage. According to the city fathers, the reviewed housing policy restores the city’s authority to service and sell land to individuals on…

FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s lawyers have written to the registrar of the High Court, Don Ndirowei, seeking to have the politician’s matter — in which he is demanding an order directing the State to release his title deeds — heard by a judge other than Justice Edith Mushore. In the letter dated March…

FORMER Local Government minister, Ignatius Chombo, was yesterday removed from remand in a case he is accused of illegally facilitating the sale of a government house in Mutare to ex-Zanu PF legislator Fred Kanzama. This comes after the State failed to secure a requisite policy document. Chombo, who is jointly charged with former valuations and…

AILING Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, was in fact airlifted to China on Sunday, as health woes continue to dog the powerful former military commander. This comes after the Daily News reported exclusively in its Monday edition that Chiwenga was once again not feeling well, and that he had been ordered by his doctors to…

IN A welcome development, South Africa has confirmed that it will not close its key land border with Zimbabwe in the wake of the lethal coronavirus pandemic that has forced Pretoria to shut dozens of its ports of entry, the Daily News reports. This comes as Pretoria has introduced a raft of measures to contain…

THE Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) and Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) are calling on the government to close all schools as a preventive measure against the coronavirus which has claimed thousands of lives globally. This comes as neighbouring South Africa announced that all schools will be closed from today until after the Easter holidays…