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Cabinet yesterday recommended Presidential Regulations imposing a moratorium on evictions of tenants delaying rent payments during the lockdown and staying legal action against their landlords delaying mortgage instalments as a result.
2020 tobacco marketing season opens today
The 2020 tobacco marketing season officially starts today, with the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) expressing satisfaction with the level of preparedness at all auction floors, which have complied with Covid-19 preventive measures, including setting up clinics and isolation sites.
Mutare prepares for large overseas returnees
A large group of returnees on its way to Beira by ship is expected in Mutare soon, prompting the provincial Covid-19 taskforce to identify more facilities that can be used as quarantine centres.
Covid-19 death: Mhondoro villagers in denial
The death of Gogo Nguni, nee Chitemere, has left the community in her village in Mhondoro puzzled, with some denying she succumbed to Covid-19, despite the positive test made when she was taken to Harare.
Pari patient tests positive for coronavirus
A fifty-Two-year-old man from Murehwa, who had been admitted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, last Friday suffering from malaria, has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the country’s 32nd patient.
Angel of Hope gets UFI donation
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC), through its Agape Family Care, yesterday handed over 100 tonnes of maize-meal, five tonnes of sugar, fives tonnes of sugar beans and 5 000 bars of laundry soap to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa’s Angel of Hope Foundation, for onward distribution to communities in need.
148 samples collected in Mhondoro, 13 quarantined in Hurungwe
AT least 148 more people from villages in Mhondoro-Mubaira are being tested for Covid-19 after a cluster of three known cases in the area while 13 Zimbabweans returning home through Chirundu Border Post have been quarantined at Vuti Quarantine Centre in Hurungwe.
Premature to reopen schools: Parly
Schools should reopen when it is safe for pupils and teachers and in the meantime e-learning needs to be tailored so that children can benefit, chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, said yesterday.
Stop meddling in graft probes, Zacc warns politicians
Some senior Government officials have been trying to influence and interfere with investigations being undertaken by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), including attempting to politicise the commission’s work, says chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo.
Zimtrade develops online exports platform
National trade development and promotion agency, Zimtrade is working on an online platform and mobile application that will facilitate trade by ensuring that the country continues to export despite outbreak of Covid-19.