FULL TEXT: Ministry Of Health COVID-19 Update - 29 April 2020

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has announced that Zimbabwe’s coronavirus cases have gone up by eight from thirty-two to forty as of 29 April 2020.

We present the Ministry’s full statement below.

The Ministry would like to report that two of the PCR tests done in Bulawayo on the 28th of April 2020 were positive for COVID-19. Today, a total of 355 tests were done as shown in table 1 below, giving a total of 7 642 screening and diagnostic tests done to date. All the PCR tests done in Bulawayo today were negative for COVID-19. Of the PCR tests done in Harare today, six were positive for COVID-19. More details on these cases will be given in tomorrow’s update.

Distribution of tests done today

• Mat. South – 25
• Mat North  – 10
• Bulawayo – 98
• Mash. Central – 11
• Harare – 211
• Total – 355

Therefore, to date, Zimbabwe now has forty confirmed cases including five recoveries and four deaths.

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• Matebeleland Noth – 1
• Bulawayo – 12
• Harare – 19
• Mashonaland East 5
• Mashonaland West – 3
• Total – 40

Case #33 is a 70-year-old male resident of Bulawayo, who returned from the United Kingdom on 18 March 2020. He was tested for COVID-19 as a contact to Case #14. Currently, he is stable, with mild disease.

Case #34 is a 27-year-old male resident of Bulawayo, with no recent history of travel. He was tested for COVID-19 as a contact to Case a33. Currently, he is also stable, with mild disease.

Both cases arc recovering under self-isolation at home.

The Ministry continues to be on HIGH alert to the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to be guided by the COVID-I9 containment strategy which is based on intensified active surveillance, timely use detection, testing, isolation and management of all COVID-19 cases.

Further, the the Ministry would like to remind the nation, that the most effective wats to protect yourself and others against COVID-19 are to practise good personal hygiene and exercise social distancing.