adminMinister rallies Chiredzi businesses
The business community in Chiredzi District has been urged to start producing personal protective equipment (PPEs) and sanitisers, along the way creating employment opportunities for residents.
Council destroys illegal vending cabins, stalls
Harare City Council teams over the weekend demolished vendors’ illegal cabins and stalls in Mbare and Highfield, but vendors complained that the destruction was done before the promised new market areas had been developed.
Tour of health facilities continues
Government continues to monitor the state of hospitals which will accommodate Covid-19 patients, with a view to ensuring that everything is place and the country is ready to deal with any surge in positive cases.
Botswana helps 255 Zimbabweans come home
Botswana has helped 255 Zimbabweans wanting to come back home after being unable to move across the border because of the lockdown regulations in both countries.
Manicaland residents get roller meal at home
Manicaland has started door-to-door deliveries of subsidised roller meal to residents in the high-density suburbs of Mutare and Makoni districts to curb long queues and promote social distancing.
Ministry takes over Mutare isolation centre
The Covid-19 isolation centre at Mutare Infectious Diseases Hospital has been taken over by the Ministry of Health and Child Care, so that rehabilitation of the unit can be accelerated.
‘Lockdown extension a necessary and unavoidable decision’
Fellow Zimbabweans, some 21 days ago, I, as your President, announced Government decision to put our nation on lockdown as part of our broad response to the virulent, world-wide threat of coronavirus. In arriving at that decision, Government took into account the few cases which had already hit us then, as well as the global spread of the virus which swelled at an alarming rate daily.
Outsiders cannot define us
Today, we relaunch “Writing Back”, a column birthed at our sister paper, The Sunday Mail a year ago.
Editorial Comment: Lockdown extension with economy restart sensible
Public health requirements meant that yesterday President Mnangagwa had to extend the lockdown for a further two weeks, but using this period of tight controls on movement to continue restarting the economy by adding mining and manufacturing to agriculture as permitted economic activity.
Big Three member raises alarm . . . ‘Domestic football programme could be scrapped’
ONE of the country’s Big Three clubs feels the entire domestic football programme could be scraped, without a ball being kicked, for the first time in its 58-year history.