Tag: Covid-19
City of Harare closes buildings
Munyaradzi Doma
The City of Harare has temporarily closed some of its buildings to allow for fumigation as fears...
‘We need more testing and increased surveillance’
Q&A with medical practitioner Dr Josephat Chiripanyanga
Where are we now as a country with regards to COVID-19?
Teachers against schools opening
Cynthia Chitombi
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe is against government’s proposed opening of schools announcing that it would seek an interdict blocking the...
Tourism union says workers facing uncertainty as industry will only fully...
Shamiso Ngwena
Thousands of workers in the tourism and hospitality industry could lose their jobs due to the effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic, which...
We are on our own in fighting COVID-19 – Mangudya
Farai Mabeza
Zimbabwe is battling to salvage its economy on its own in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic after being excluded from the emergency...
Mother Touch School in online fees storm
Farai Mabeza
Parents with children at private schools, who, after being bombarded with United States dollar demands for online learning, are feeling the pinch of...
COVID-19 response must target African agriculture and the rural poor
Olusegun Obasanjo and Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe
ROME, Italy, – Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent...
Corruption threatens local PPEs procurement
Sydney Kawadza
Allegations of serious corruption activities among senior government officials could derail government’s efforts to rope in local industry to manufacture Personal Protective Equipment...
Government to increase coronavirus testing
Munyaradzi Doma
Zimbabwe has resolved to increase its coronavirus testing and Cabinet has resolved to have joint testing teams to immediately conduct tests in all...
TIMB sees 15% drop in tobacco volume to 220m kgs; 30%...
Farai Mabeza
HARARE – Zimbabwe expects that 30 percent of all tobacco sales will be done outside Harare after Government gazetted a statutory instrument authorising...