While figures in the past two months have been relatively low, they are starting to shoot up.
Due in part to overcrowding at quarantine centres for people returning from abroad, at least 113 have escaped - raising fears of a possibility of community infections. As such, the government has declared that harbouring a returning citizen who didn’t go through the centres is now a criminal offence.
Two thousand Zimbabweans have been voluntarily sent back home from South Africa and about 500 have been deported, with convicted criminals given five-year travel bans from South Africa. Three thousand more people are expected next week from South Africa and Botswana but the government says it has no capacity to quarantine them and is urging churches to avail their facilities.
A company linked to Mnangagwa’s son Sean, Drax International, was clandestinely given a tender to supply Covid-19 equipment worth $987,720 . The items to be procured included: 5,040 N95 masks at a cost of $28 per unit; 15,000 Covid-19 test kits at $34 each; and 3,740 coveralls for $90 each. Prices are a 50% mark-up from manufacturers;
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