President Emmerson Mnangagwa while launching the Ministry Of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting services call centre donated by Insscor Africa and Liquid Telecom said the spike in COVID-19 cases in Zimbabwe is worrisome, The Herald reports.
Speaking at the launch event of the call centre, the president expressed concern over the increase in number of COVID-19 patients by saying:
It (Covid-19) has just begun to attack Zimbabwe and the spike is beginning to show an upward trend in our country. Yes, we have introduced a lockdown some two weeks ago but we are realising now that the pandemic is now more serious than at the time we introduced the lockdown
The president’s remarks come at a time where Zimbabwe is recording a new case(s) of COVID-19 on a daily basis.
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A bill has to be put in place not later than now to allow for the publishing of names of those that test positive so as to assist curbing new transmissions. Why shld we continue to observe privacy in our case when some patients wantonly violate isolation measures causing new infections to others. So privacy now overides national security??