By staff reporter.
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 deaths toll have increased to eight after a female in Harare died yesterday from deadly pandemic.
Zimbabwe is under a level 2 lockdown for an indefinite period aimed at minimising citizens’ movement and gatherings to curtail a wild fire spread of infections, which could stretch the country’s healthcare system.
In its daily update, the Ministry of health said: “Today we regret to report a facility death of a female aged 21, from Harare Province, who tested positive today with no history of travel and had co-morbidities”.
While imported cases still account for the bulk of infections, local transmissions have been on the rise in the past few weeks.
“Seventy-three (73) cases tested positive for Covid-19 today. These include returnees from South Africa (55), Botswana (3), Mozambique (3), USA (2), Australia (1), Zambia (1) and eight local cases who are isolated,” the Ministry of Health said in a daily update.”
To date the total number of confirmed cases is 698, recovered 181, active cases 509 and 8 deaths, since the onset of the outbreak on 20 March 2020. The number of tests carried out to date to ascertain infection now stands at 78 465.
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