Coronavirus: Africa will not be testing ground for vaccine, says WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa.
More than 260 Zimbabweans, among them deportees repatriated from neighbouring Botswana, are subjected to unhygienic and squalid conditions at Plumtree High School, which has been turned into an isolation centre as part of measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Hundreds of beneficiaries of international remittance were stranded yesterday after only one outlet was open for them to collect their monies and get ready for the lockdown which started today.
Government is decentralising laboratory testing for coronavirus specimens with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo joining the National Reference Laboratory in Harare for the confirming tests, while rapid test kits will be distributed across the country.
The third person to die of Covid-19 complications in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a respected human rights lawyer and an aide of President Félix Tshisekedi.
A Zimbabwe government spokesman warned people against flocking to church Sunday in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, and even claimed that worshippers risked going to hell.
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of opting to have festivities in Namibia in the midst of serious concerns over threats of COVID-19 and has pledged to frequently inform Zimbabweans about the coronavirus situation.
In Chitungwiza, a town of half-a-million people south of Harare, several women are waiting at the water pump with large cans, concern etched on their faces, fearful of the growing threat of the coronavirus.
A 103-year-old woman in Iran has recovered after being infected with the new coronavirus, state media reported, despite overwhelming evidence the elderly are most at risk from the disease.
Zimbabwe’s human rights lawyers and doctors have threatened to take legal action to force government to expeditiously disseminate information relating to suspected cases of coronavirus in the country amid speculative reports that a 47-year-old Chinese woman who died on her way to Wilkins Hospital in Harare on Friday had succumbed to the killer disease.