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Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Health Reporter
THE Covid-19 death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to 25 following the death of a 36-year-old woman at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo yesterday.
The country also recorded 58 new cases bringing the cumulative total to 1 478 since the outbreak of the global pandemic in March.
Of the new cases, 21 are returnees from South Africa, 16 from Botswana and the rest are local members of the public who are already on isolation.
Matabeleland South provinces recorded the highest number of new cases yesterday with 50, followed by Manicaland which recorded five.
According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, 439 people have recovered from the pandemic since the first was recoded.
“As at July 18, 2020, Zimbabwe had 1478 confirmed cases, including 439 recoveries and 25 deaths.”
Bulawayo has a cumulative of 447 cases, Matabeleland South 210 while Matabeleland North province has 30 cases.
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