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Highlights of the situation report
- Seventy-three (73) cases tested positive for COVID-19. These include returnees from South Africa (55), Botswana (3), Mozambique (3), USA (2), Australia (1), Zambia (1) and 8 local cases who are isolated.
- Two of the local cases are contacts of known confirmed cases, investigations are underway to establish the source of infection for the other (6) cases.
- We regret to report a facility death of a female aged 21, from Harare Province, who tested positive with no history of travel and had co-morbidities.
- New recoveries were reported by Midlands Province (4) and Mashonaland East Province (1).
- 2247 RDT screening tests and 733 PCR diagnostic tests were done. The cumulative number of tests done to date is 78465 (45620 RDT and 32845 PCR).
- 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.
| 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 | 66 | 306 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 23 | 46 | 0 | 3 | |
| Harare | 1553 | 323 | 16 | 242 | 0 | 64 | 175 | 1 | 3 | |
| Manicaland | 54 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mash Cent. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mash East | 220 | 0 | 19 | 75 | 1 | 27 | 48 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mash West | 155 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 4 | 8 | 56 | 0 | 1 | |
| Masvingo | 61 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 17 | 36 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mat North | 138 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mat South | 0 | 104 | 36 | 90 | 0 | 22 | 68 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 2247 | 733 | 73 | 698 | 5 | 181 | 509 | 1 | 8 | |
Mashonaland East and Mashonaland West provinces received positive results NMRL.
To protect yourself and others, report to the health authorities any suspicious returning citizens or residents that might not have gone through quarantine.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe.
