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Zimbabwe orders COVID-19 vaccination for all civil servants

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker walks past signs at a clinic offering coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinations in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 8, 2021. REUTERS/Philimon BulawayoHARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s government on Tuesday ordered that all its workers should receive a COVID-19 vaccine and only 10% of civil servants report for duty, with the rest working from home […]

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Fear and anger as cholera strikes again in Zimbabwe

Sixty-year-old Emma Zhakata winces, struggling to hold back tears as she relates how her husband, one of 32 cholera victims in Zimbabwe, died within hours of falling ill. She never suspected her 69-year-old husband, Wonder Zhakata, would die suddenly after complaining that he felt weak and was suffering stomach pain. After she rushed her husband […]

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Zimbabwe declares cholera outbreak after 20 deaths

A cholera emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe’s capital after 20 people have died, the health minister said Tuesday. The deaths in Harare have many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands at the height of the southern African country’s economic problems in 2008. Water and sanitation infrastructure is collapsing. While touring a […]