Zimbabwe records One COVID-19 related Death.
Brian Rungano Temba
Zimbabwe continues to record significant decrease in COVID-19 related deaths owing to the Second Republic’s commitment to efficient Healthcare management and service delivery in combating the pandemic.
Speaking to the press at a post-Cabinet briefing in Harare yesterday, Minister of ICT and Courier Services, Hon Jenfan Muswere said that only 1 death was recorded during the week under review, compared to the 3 recorded the previous week.
” The number of new cases continued to decrease. However, during the week under review, there were 26 new admissions, compared to the 21 recorded the previous week, with 3 being in intensive care unit.”
“As at March 11, 2023, the country’s cumulative cases since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 had reached 264 385, with 258 313 recoveries and 5 672 cumulative deaths. The recovery rate stands at 98 per cent, with 370 active cases having been reported,” said Muswere.
Regarding the national vaccination programme, a total of 6 865 048 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have so far been administered, while 5 089 413 people have received their second dose, and 1 637 094 their third dose.
There was an increase in the national vaccination coverage for the first dose to 61.1 per cent from the 60.8 per cent which was recorded previously.
Muswere also informed the nation that Government had achieved great milestones in Health and Well-Being under National Development Strategy Phase 1 (NDS1).
“Government is prioritising the capacitation of village health workers to promote early maternity bookings and delivery in health institutions.”
“Government is making concerted efforts to address the conditions of service of health care workers; and the proportion of occupationally exposed workers is also being monitored, and is well on target,” he added.
Recently through the capacitation of Devolution funds the nation has seen the building of Community clinics in Masvingo (North West Medical Centre) and Mudzi (Nyamhondoro Community Clinic).
All these and many other projects funded by the Central Government have been done to achieve the NDS1 strategic goal of ensuring all clinics are within a 7km radius to any given Community.
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