President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that beerhalls, bars and night clubs will remain closed as he eased the current national lock down to Level Two. Addressing the nation from State House Tuesday, Mnangagwa adjusted business operating hours from 8am to 7pm while the curfew has been adjusted to start at …
Read More »World Vision, Partners Launch Project On Education & Disaster Preparedness
A Christian, and child-focused humanitarian aid agency, World Vision collaborating with Welthungerhilfe, Christian Blind Mission and various Government of Zimbabwe departments, has launched a project titled Strengthening Community-Led Actions on Education and Disaster Preparedness also known as SCALE-DP project. With an estimated €2,7million euros (US$3,2 million) funding from the European …
Read More »Paternity Tests Shoot Through The Roof, 80pc Men Cry Foul
Eighty percent of men who suspect their partners cheated on them are having their suspicions confirmed by DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) tests. Information gathered from leading DNA laboratories in the country by The Sunday Mail Society shows a massive surge in demand for voluntary paternity tests by both married and single …
Read More »Brazilian Viper Venom May Become Tool In Fight Against Covid: Study
Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19. A study published in the scientific journal Molecules this month found that the molecule produced by …
Read More »Covid: Virologist Says No Need To Panic Over New C.1.2 Variant Found In SA
Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new viral variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It’s not a single virus but a clustering of genetically similar viruses, known as C.1.2. The researchers, in a pre-print study released last week but yet to be peer reviewed, found this cluster has picked up …
Read More »Covid-Battling Mathema Air-Lifted To Harare As Heath Deteriorates
Primary and secondary education minister Cain Ginyilitshe Mathema has been airlifted to Harare from Bulawayo after his health deteriorated, ZimLive can reveal. The 74-year-old was admitted to the United Bulawayo Hospitals’ refurbished Covid-19 facility in mid-August after catching the respiratory illness. Sources said the minister was flown to Harare on …
Read More »Genetically Changed Mosquitoes Could Transform Africa’s Long Fight Against Malaria
It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria. This is the reality in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where after decades of control initiatives there were still some 384,000 deaths and 188 million malaria cases in 2019. Malaria prevention in African countries heavily depends on using insecticide …
Read More »New Covid Variant Detected In SA, Most Mutated Variant So Far
A new coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and a number of other countries, with concerns that the variant could be more infectious and evade vaccines, according to a new preprint study by South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform. The study …
Read More »Child Marriage Acts Require Stiffer Penalties: Rights Groups
Child and women’s rights groups have urged the Government to immediately reform the country’s laws to outlaw child marriages and introduce stiffer penalties for abusing the girl child. This follows the death of Anna Machaya (15) who died during child birth before being secretly buried at an apostolic sect church …
Read More »More Zim Youths Turn To Meth, ‘A Pain Killer’ They Say
A young man carefully dismantles a fluorescent light and empties a small sachet of methamphetamine into the tube. Using a cigarette lighter, the 24-year-old Zimbabwean heats it until the white crystals liquefy and begin emanating smoke. Sitting in a room in Glen View, a working-class suburb in the capital Harare, …
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