The Ministry of Health and Child Care has on Sunday issued a statement advising the nation that the number of coronavirus cases in the country remained at 25 as of Sunday 19 April 2020.
The Ministry had conducted 225 tests which all came out negative. We present the statement in full below.
Today, a total of 225 tests were done as detailed in the table 1 below, giving a total of 2851 screening and diagnostic tests done to date.
- Harare – 167
- Manicaland -7
- Midlands – 24
- Mat North – 2
- Bulawayo – 25
Therefore, to date, Zimbabwe has twenty-five confirmed cases, including two recoveries and three deaths.
- Harare – 10
- Bulawayo – 10
- Matebeleland North – 1
- Mashonaland East – 4
One case reported yesterday under Manicaland is a returning resident from UK with a Mutare address but currently in mandatory isolation in Harare and has not been to Mutare since return from the UK. He has therefore been reported in this table under Harare.
Case #25 yesterday is a 29-year-old female resident in Harare who returned from France on the 15th of April 2020. On arrival, she had no signs or symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 and was thereefore put on mandatory quarantine at one of the designated quarantine centres.
As part of our intensified surveillance for COVID-I9, the local Rapid Response Team collected samples from all returning residents at this quarantine centre. She was diagnosed positive COVID-I9 yesterday and has since been relocated to Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital for isolation and treatment. She is stable with mild disease.
Today, His Excellency The Presient Cde E. D. Mnangagwa announced an extension of the COVID-19 Lockdown by a further two weeks.
The Ministry continues to be on HIGH alert to the COV1D-19 pandemic and 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.
