COVID-19: 40th case recorded

Herald Reporter
Zimbabwe has so far recorded 40 confirmed positive cases of Covid-19 with five recoveries and four deaths.

Ministry of Health and Child Care confirmed the development in an update last night.

“The ministry would like to report that two of the PCR tests done in Bulawayo on the 28th of April 2020, were positive for Covid-19.

“Today (yesterday) a total of 355 tests were done, giving a total of 7 642 screening and diagnostic tests done to date,” the Ministry said.

All the PCR tests done in Bulawayo yesterday were negative for Covid-19 while for the PCR tests done in Harare, six were positive for Covid-19.

Case number 33 is a 70-year-old male resident of Bulawayo, who returned from the United Kingdom on March 18, 2020. He was tested for Covid-19 as a contact on case number 14. Currently, he is stable with mild disease.

Case number 34 is a 27-year-old male resident of Bulawayo, with no recent history of travel. He was tested for Covid-19 as a contact of case number 14. He is currently stable with mild disease

Both cases are recovering under self-isolation.

The Ministry continues to be on high alert to the Covid-19 pandemic and continues to be guided by the Covid-19 containment strategy, which is based on intensified active surveillance, timely case detection, testing, isolation management of all Covid-19 cases.

Further, the Ministry would like to remind the nation that the most effective ways to protect yourself and others against Covid-19 are to practise good personal hygiene and exercise social distancing, read the statement.