Kadoma siblings break dad out of isolation centre

By Lovemore Chazingwa in Kadoma

An elderly man who was helped to escape from an isolation centre by his relatives has died.
Nhau is reliably informed that after relatives sprang their father from an isolation centre in Kadoma, his condition deteriorated at home resulting in his death.
This comes as the second wave of the pandemic has proved to be more vicious than the first with City of Kadoma recording a worrisome rise in positive cases and deaths.
According to health director, Dr Daniel Chirundu, as of Monday, the city had registered a cumulative 193 positive cases and fifteen deaths.
“This is consolidated data for the past two weeks,” he told Nhau.
Dr Chirundu could not specify on recoveries, suffice to say more than 20 people have been moved out of the main institutional isolation centre at Queen Mary Private Hospital.
He promised to consolidate that data and share with the public.
Asked to comment on people escaping from official isolation centres, Dr Chirundu said: “We urge members of the public to take heed of medical advice. Another person fled from the isolation centre at Queen Mary.
“I cannot comment much on that one as it is under Government jurisdiction. What I am able to say is that information reaching us is that one person fled from that centre.”
On January 18 Zimbabwe witnessed its deadliest day in terms of Covid-19 fatalities since March last year, recording 60 deaths in 24 hours. Nhau/Indaba