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Highlights of the situation report
- Twenty-one (21) cases tested positive for COVID-19. These include returnees from South Africa (18), Botswana (2) and Mozambique (1) and are all isolated.
- Recoveries were reported by Masvingo Province (2) and Matabeleland North Province (3).
- 156 RDT screening tests and 435 PCR diagnostic tests were done. The cumulative number of tests done to date is 65111 (36423 RDT and 28688 PCR).
- To date the total number of confirmed cases is 551; recovered 128, active cases 417 and 6 deaths, since the onset of the outbreak on 20 March 2020.
| Number of tests done | Number of Confirmed Cases |
Number
Recovered |
Number of
Active Cases |
Deceased | ||||||
| Province | RDT | PCR | New | Cum | New | Cum | New | Cum | ||
| Bulawayo | 6 | 94 | 1 | *51 | 0 | 10 | 39 | 0 | 2 | |
| Harare | 76 | 246 | 5 | *205 | 0 | 58 | 145 | 0 | 2 | |
| Manicaland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mash Cent. | 0 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mash East | 2 | 5 | 2 | 49 | 0 | 17 | 32 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mash West | 0 | 17 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midlands | 48 | 0 | 11 | 54 | 0 | 4 | 49 | 0 | 1 | |
| Masvingo | 0 | 8 | 0 | 53 | 2 | 15 | 38 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mat North | 12 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mat South | 9 | 35 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 156 | 435 | 21 | 551 | 5 | 128 | 417 | 0 | 6 | |
*14 cases that were being reported under Bulawayo Province have been moved to Harare Province after a verification exercise carried out by the use of linelists from the two provinces.
Midlands Province received 11 positive results from NMRL.
All COVID-19 confirmed cases should be isolated and contacts of confirmed cases should be quarantined.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe.
