Health & Fitness

Speaking after yesterday’s Cabinet meeting, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa, said since the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 a total of 259 770 Zimbabweans had been infected, with 253 672 recoveries and 5 631 deaths. This gives a recovery rate of 98 percent with 467 active cases. …

At least nine typhoid cases have been confirmed in Harare’s Glen Norah high density suburb with health authorities at Town House claiming to be managing the unfolding health crisis. City of Harare Epidemiologist and Disease Control Officer Dr Michael Vere said the local authority has managed to confine the typhoid …

Following the outbreak of measles in Manicaland early this year, the Government has achieved 95 percent success in the vaccination of children in the hotspots districts, successfully managing the outbreak. The Ministry of Health and Child Care launched a nationwide vaccination campaign as the outbreak spread outside the borders of …

Health authorities say a lithium project in Goromonzi is posing a health crisis after employing over 4 000 workers without establishing a static clinic at the plant which has resulted in an upsurge of sexually transmitted infections in the district. A large number of sex workers have also camped in …

By Richard KawaziDisadvantaged families led by single parents and the elderly in Matepatepa, Bindura District recently received a boost in food supplies ahead of the festive season, Nhau/Indaba has established. The timely boost was as a result of a partnership between World Remit and Hello Paisa which are some of …

Medical experts yesterday warned members of the public to guard against complacency during the forthcoming festive season to avoid another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The warning comes as a new Omicron variant has been detected in neighbouring Botswana, a COVID-19 strain that wreaked havoc across the world around this …

PARLIAMENT is pushing for the imposition of mandatory sentences for rapists among other sexual offenders including those involved in child marriages as statistics show that 22 women and girls are raped daily. Legislators yesterday marked 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through a march in Harare before Senate …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said government will enforce stiffer penalties for child abusers. This comes at a time the nation has witnessed an upsurge in child abuse cases. Recently a nine-year-old girl from Tsholotsho gave birth and became the second youngest mother in the world. Speaking during United Nations …

The mother of a nine-year-old girl who is 27 weeks pregnant, Chipo Chisora aged 30 (not her real name) has lived a life of agony. After falling prey to rapists at an early age, Chipo has lived to see her daughter go through the same ordeal. Her nine-year-old daughter (name …

Bindura BureauIn what appears to be a new wave of bizarre sexual abuse upon the girl child, another nine-year-old girl has been confirmed pregnant in Mashonaland Central. This comes barely 72 hours after a Tsholotsho girl of the same age became the country’s youngest mother after being raped. She gave …