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The director of Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Portia Manangazira was yesterday denied bail, as she was likely to interfere with investigations and witnesses, including her parents, who were part of the 28 family members she hired as community health workers to undertake the Covid-19 awareness programme across the country.
One of the top officials in the fight against Covid-19, Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr Portia Manangazira, allegedly criminally abused aid funds by hiring 28 relatives as community health workers, paying facilitation fees to undeserving ministry staff, and flouting tender rules when she bought US$280 529 of goods and services.
Some private and public hospitals in the country have been accused of not providing the Government with Covid-19 statistics, a move that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on health described as scandalous and unacceptable.
The United Kingdom (UK) has banned arrivals from Zimbabwe among a number of southern African countries, including the Seychelles and Mauritius as part of measures to contain the spread of the new South African strain of Covid-19.
One more person has tested positive to Covid-19, bringing to nine the total number of confirmed cases in the country, with one death.
The outbreak of cholera which first hit the capital city at the beginning of this month has spread to four other provinces. As a result, government has activated its emergence response systems in a bid to contain its spread.
HARARE – Econet Wireless on Wednesday launched a new product, Dial-A-Doc, aimed at providing health tips to people in emergency situations.
Researcher and water expert Christopher Magadza told journalists during a wetlands media tour that Harare, due to loss of wetlands, is being supplied with water containing 50 percent recycled urine.