Govt Criticised For Conducting "Only 20 Cases, The Whole Day, Countrywide"

The Zimbabwean government has been criticised for doing less as far as testing for coronavirus is concerned. The criticism comes after the Ministry of Health and Child in its coronavirus update on 4 April 2020 revealed that it had tested 20 cases which came out negative.

Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo is one of the people who were clearly not impressed by the government’s efforts. He posted on Twitter and said:

You did only 20 #COVID19 tests today. Just 20, countrywide. The whole of Zimbabwe. What are you up to, you people? What’s your capacity? What is the maximum number of tests that you can do per day? This is now a national disgrace!

Recently, Ali Naka a political activist and Pan Africanist working with the Rwanda government also criticised the government saying it was testing as fewer people as possible to get as less positive cases as possible.

Naka said that this behaviour was not helping and was tantamount to concealing cases.

This comes when neighbouring South Africa has embarked on a more rigorous testing campaigning which saw health officers being deployed into homes, towns and townships to get a better sample which is representative of the total population.

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