Zimbabwe yesterday recorded 73 new Covid-19 cases, including that of a 21-year-old Harare woman who died.
BY STAFF REPORTER
The huge jump in cases pushed the country’s caseload to 698 with eight deaths.
According to an update by the Health and Child Care ministry last night, 55 of the cases were of Zimbabweans that recently returned from South Africa.
Three had returned from Mozambique, two from the United States and one each from Australia and Zambia, while eight were local infections.
The Harare woman had no history of travel, but had underlying illnesses, the ministry said.
Zimbabwe has been on a lockdown to slow down the spread of Covid-19, a flu-like disease that was first detected in China late last year and has been spreading across the world at an alarming rate.
The country’s response to the pandemic has been hampered by repeated strikes by nurses and doctors protesting against poor working conditions and lack of personal protective equipment.
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