Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw A DISTRAUGHT Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on Zimbabweans to unite and work together to contain the raging coronavirus which continues to infect and kill dozens of people every day. Speaking in Harare at the burial of the late Cabinet ministers Joel Biggie Matiza and Sibusiso Busi Moyo, as…
Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw HEALTH experts have once again called upon authorities to introduce a much tougher Covid-19 lockdown, including further restricting the movement of people — to curb the spread of the killer disease in the country. Welcoming the government’s new set of fines for coronavirus violators, the health experts said a much…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO THE United Nations (UN) is providing shelter for around 170 people evacuated in Masvingo South following the spillage of Tugwi-Mukosi Dam at the weekend. This comes as insistent rainfall has been pounding most parts of the country since the start of the year, resulting in the dam which holds at least…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw A JUNIOR police officer alleged to be part of suspected notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul’s terror gang, Tapiwa Mangoma, has applied for bail at the High Court for a third time. Mangoma, who was arrested in August last year following a shootout between a police crack team and the alleged…
Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw WITH the country continuing to register alarming numbers of people getting infected and succumbing to the lethal coronavirus, health experts have delivered bad news: things will get worse before they get better. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the health experts also reiterated that the continuing lack of discipline among Zimbabweans…
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…
