Tag: Ministry of Health and Child Care
COVID-19 cases soar as Zimbabwean authorities battle complacency
Sydney Kawadza
The number of people arrested for violating COVID-19 regulations in Zimbabwe is galloping towards the one million mark with complacency taking root in...
COVID-19 decimates lives, livelihoods along Zimbabwe’s busiest highway
Sydney Kawadza and Nhau Mangirazi
For many years, Karoi, a small agricultural town, was just but a small business centre along the busy Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway.
It...
Zimbabwe’s Typhoid vaccination programme targeting six million children
Sharon Chikwanha/Donald Chakamanga
At least six million children between the ages of nine months to 15 years are targeted in government's Integrated Typhoid Conjugate Vaccination...
COVID-19: Govt, council employees to return to work
Reason Razao
Government and local authority offices will now be open for business as authorities start opening up the country from an indefinite COVID-19 national...
Adult population to create COVID-19 herd immunity
Sydney Kawadza
Zimbabwe’s estimated 10 million adult population is targeted at creating its COVID-19 herd immunity through government’s vaccination programme covering an estimated 59 percent...
Zimbabwe rolls out COVID-19 vaccination programme
Davison Kaiyo and Nyasha Kunyiswa
Zimbabwe rolled the COVID-19 vaccination programme with Vice President Constantino Chiwenga getting the first jab at Wilkins Infectious Hospital in...
Gvt turns to traditional medicines in fighting cancer
Nyasha Kunyiswa
Government is turning to traditional medicines as one of the measures aimed at fighting cancer against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic which...
National lockdown extended to February 15
Reason Razao
Government has extended the Level 4 National Lockdown by another two weeks amid concern of new COVID-19 variants in Zimbabwe.
The lockdown would be...
Government reviews boarding hostels capacities
Sydney Kawadza
Government is reviewing the maximum carrying capacity of all boarding school hostels after 184 pupils at John...
Malawi-based Zim bio-engineer shines in COVID-19 battle
Shamiso Ngwena
Malawi-based Zimbabwean bio-engineer Will Desiree Moyo is making waves in the fight against the COVID-19 virus after...