https://www.voazimbabwe.com/z/3159 The Voice of America is one of the world's most trusted sources for news and information from the United States and around the world. VOA is a multi media news organization using radio, television, and the internet to distribute content in 45 languages. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/Content/responsive/VOA/en-ZW/img/logo.png https://www.voazimbabwe.com/z/3159 en 2026 - VOA 60 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:59:16 +0200 Pangea CMS – VOA Cases of COVID-19 are surging again globally, due in large part to the rise of virus variant Omicron BA.5, which is much more contagious than its predecessors and is able to circumvent existing immunity in many people. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released data indicating that the BA.5 variant is now responsible for more than half of new cases and is poised to continue outcompeting older versions of the Omicron variant that remain in circulation. The new variant is also carving its path across other countries. In the Americas, Brazil and Mexico are both experiencing upticks. In Europe, cases are on the rise across the continent, including in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Greece, among others. The United Kingdom is experiencing a rise as well. In Asia, cases are rising in Japan, South Korea and India, among others. Cases are also climbing in Australia and New Zealand. ‘Worst’ variant yet Public health experts are warning that despite the fact that death rates from COVID-19 remain low in the U.S., the Omicron BA.5 variant remains a major concern. Evidence suggests that a recent prior infection with COVID-19 offers little or no protection against reinfection with the new variant. During past waves, it has typically been assumed that an individual who had recovered from a bout of COVID-19 would have enhanced immune protection against reinfection for a significant period of time. “The Omicron subvariant BA.5 is the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen,” Dr. Eric Topol, a member of the Department of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research, wrote in his popular Substack newsletter. “It takes immune escape, already extensive, to the next level, and, as a function of that, enhanced transmissibility, well beyond Omicron (BA.1) and other Omicron family variants that we’ve seen.” Even though people appear to be less likely to get extremely sick from the new variant, public health experts say that they are concerned about the possibility that as infections increase, more people will come down with lingering symptoms. So-called long COVID, which can include fatigue, shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction and other adverse health events, has been detected in as many as one in five people who survive an infection. Public health challenge Rising case counts have public health experts deeply concerned about what will take place in the coming months. “Right now, the public health stance should be maximizing vaccination, including boosters for those who are eligible and primary vaccination and boosters for children,” David Blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund, a public health foundation, told VOA. “That's the absolutely critical, essential first step in a public health campaign to reduce the impact of COVID. That also should include planning for, we hope, a more specific vaccine in the fall against the Omicron variants.” Blumenthal said he believed that the threat of long COVID meant that it also makes sense for people to continue wearing masks in public during surges in infection. However, he said he recognized that calling for more restrictions presented a serious challenge to public health officials, who will find themselves trying to persuade a pandemic-weary public to embrace masking again. “I think that civic leaders — respected, nonmedical leaders, as well as personal physicians — are probably the best communicators at this point,” he said. US in detail According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, in the 90 days ending on July 6, the average number of daily cases over the previous seven days in the U.S. rose to 106,193, from 34,795. However, the actual number of cases is believed to be far higher, because the prevalence of at-home testing means that the majority of cases are not reported to public health agencies. The same data set shows that over the same 90-day period, the seven-day average of people hospitalized for COVID-19 rose to 35,637, from 14,904. While that marked a significant upward move in percentage terms, the absolute number of people currently hospitalized for the disease remains far below the more than 807,000 recorded at the peak in January. Deaths from COVID-19 have actually fallen over the past 90 days, with a seven-day average of 309 recorded on July 6, compared with 507 recorded 90 days earlier. The current death rate remains near all-time lows since the beginning of the pandemic. China changes direction In China this week, Beijing became the first major city in the mainland to adopt a vaccination requirement for people to enter public spaces. Starting Monday, individuals will have to provide proof of vaccination to enter a broad range of public buildings in the city. As recently as September of last year, the Chinese government had been explicitly against mandatory vaccination. Wu Liangyou, a senior official with the National Health Commission, criticized municipalities that had instituted requirements like those coming into force in the capital, and said that all vaccination programs ought to remain voluntary. Unlike many other countries, China has pursued what has been called a zero-COVID approach to managing the pandemic. The government has implemented major lockdowns across the country in efforts to slow or stop the spread of the disease. The city of Xian, in the northwest of the country, is currently locked down because of a major outbreak of the disease caused by the new variant. China was initially slow to roll out vaccines, even to older members of the population, who remain the most vulnerable to the disease. Now, however, Johns Hopkins data indicate that nearly 90% of the population is fully vaccinated. Whether Beijing’s decision to mandate vaccination for access to public spaces marks the beginning of a turn away from the lockdown-focused, zero-COVID policy is unclear. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6650360.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6650360.html Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:05:04 +0200 Health SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world. The outbreak forced leader Kim Jong Un to wear a mask in public, likely for the first time since the start of the pandemic, but the scale of transmissions inside North Korea wasn't immediately known. A failure to slow infections could have serious consequences because the country has a poor health care system and its 26 million people are believed to be mostly unvaccinated. Some experts say North Korea, by its rare admission of an outbreak, may be seeking outside aid. However, hours after North Korea confirmed the outbreak, South Korea’s military said it detected the North had fired three suspected ballistic missiles toward the sea. It was its 16th round of missile launches this year, in brinkmanship aimed at forcing the United States to accept North Korea as a nuclear power and negotiate sanctions relief and other concessions from a position of strength. The official Korean Central News Agency said tests of virus samples collected Sunday from an unspecified number of people with fevers in the capital, Pyongyang, confirmed they were infected with the omicron variant. In response, Kim called at a ruling party Politburo meeting for a thorough lockdown of cities and counties and said workplaces should be isolated by units to block the virus from spreading. He urged health workers to step up disinfection efforts at workplaces and homes and mobilize reserve medical supplies. Kim said it was crucial to control transmissions and eliminate the infection source as fast as possible, while also easing inconveniences to the public caused by the virus controls. He insisted the country will overcome the outbreak because its government and people are “united as one.” Despite the elevated virus response, Kim ordered officials to push ahead with scheduled construction, agricultural development and other state projects while bolstering the country’s defense posture to avoid any security vacuum. North Korea’s state TV showed Kim and other senior officials wearing masks as they entered a meeting room, although Kim removed his mask to speak into a set of microphones. Still photos distributed by KNCA showed Kim unmasked and sitting at the head of a table where all other officials remained masked. South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, couldn't immediately confirm whether it was the first time state media showed Kim wearing a mask since the start of the pandemic. Kim has previously spoken to huge crowds without a mask as he praised the country's earlier pandemic response, and his decision to be seen with a mask could be aimed at raising public vigilance. North Korea, which has maintained strict anti-virus controls at its borders for more than two years, didn’t provide further details about its new lockdown. But an Associated Press photographer on the South Korean side of the border saw dozens of people working in fields or walking on footpaths at a North Korean border town — an indication the lockdown doesn't require people to stay home, or it exempts farm work. The measures described in state media and Kim’s declaration that economic goals should still be met could indicate that North Korea is focusing more on restricting travel and supplies between regions, analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at South Korea’s Sejong Institute said. North Korea’s government has shunned vaccines offered by the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program, possibly because they have international monitoring requirements. Seoul's Unification Ministry said South Korea is willing to provide medical assistance and other help to North Korea based on humanitarian considerations. Relations between the Koreas have deteriorated since 2019 amid a stalemate in nuclear negotiations and the North's increasingly provocative weapons tests. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Beijing is offering North Korea help in dealing with the outbreak. North Korea has reportedly rejected previous Chinese offers of domestically developed vaccines. Kim Sin-gon, a professor at Seoul’s Korea University College of Medicine, said North Korea is likely signaling its willingness to receive outside vaccines, but wants many more doses than offered by COVAX to inoculate its entire population multiple times. He said North Korea would also want COVID-19 medicines and medical equipment shipments that are banned by U.N. sanctions. Omicron spreads much more easily than earlier variants of the coronavirus, and its fatality and hospitalization rates are high among unvaccinated older people or those with existing health problems. That means the outbreak could cause “a serious situation” because North Korea lacks medical equipment and medicine to treat virus patients and many of its people are not well-nourished, Kim Sin-gon said. Ahn Kyung-su, head of DPRKHEALTH.ORG, a website focusing on health issues in North Korea, said North Korea’s admission of the outbreak is likely designed to press its people harder to guard against the virus as China, which shares a long, porous border with the North, has placed many of its cities under lockdown over virus concerns. North Korea will also likely stress lockdowns, although the experience of China’s “zero-COVID” policy suggests that approach doesn’t work against the fast-moving omicron variant, said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Seoul’s Ewha Womans University. “For Pyongyang to publicly admit omicron cases, the public health situation must be serious,” Easley said. “This does not mean North Korea is suddenly going to be open to humanitarian assistance and take a more conciliatory line toward Washington and Seoul. But the Kim regime’s domestic audience may be less interested in nuclear or missile tests when the urgent threat involves coronavirus rather than a foreign military.” North Korea’s previous coronavirus-free claim had been disputed by many foreign experts. But South Korean officials have said North Korea had likely avoided a huge outbreak, in part because it instituted strict virus controls almost from the start of the pandemic. Early in 2020 — before the coronavirus spread around the world — North Korea took severe steps to keep out the virus and described them as a matter of “national existence." It all but halted cross-border traffic and trade for two years, and is even believed to have ordered troops to shoot on sight any trespassers who crossed its borders. The extreme border closures further shocked an economy already damaged by decades of mismanagement and U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program, pushing Kim to perhaps the toughest moment of his rule since he took power in 2011. North Korea had been one of the last places in the world without an acknowledged COVID-19 case after the virus first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 spread to every continent including Antarctica. Turkmenistan, a similarly secretive and authoritarian nation in Central Asia, has reported no cases to the World Health Organization, though its claim also is widely doubted by outside experts. In recent months, some Pacific island nations that kept the virus out by their geographic isolation have recorded outbreaks. Only tiny Tuvalu, with a population around 12,000, has escaped the virus so far, while a few other nations – Nauru, Micronesia and Marshall Islands – have stopped cases at their borders and avoided community outbreaks. North Korea's outbreak comes as China — its close ally and trading partner — battles its biggest outbreak of the pandemic. In January, North Korea tentatively reopened railroad freight traffic between its border town of Sinuiju and China’s Dandong for the first time in two years, but China halted the trade last month due to an outbreak in Liaoning province, which borders North Korea. ___ Associated Press journalists Lee Jin-man in Paju, South Korea, Ken Moritsugu in Beijing and Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, contributed to this report. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6568243.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6568243.html Thu, 12 May 2022 12:30:07 +0200 ZimbabweHealthWorld China has reported it first COVID-19-related deaths in more than a year. The two deaths were recorded in Jilin, a northeastern province. China is battling a surge of coronavirus infections. The new wave of cases has resulted in Chinese health officials tightening COVID-19-related restrictions, at a time when many Western countries are lifting COVID-19 mandates. The coronavirus emerged in China’s Wuhan province more than two years ago. Meanwhile, health officials in Hong Kong say the number of COVID-19 cases there has now exceeded a million. On Friday, Hong Kong reported it had recorded 20,082 new infections and 206 new deaths. The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention is urging countries that have received displaced people from Ukraine to make COVID-19 testing and vaccination a priority at reception centers. “While vaccination for COVID-19 remains the most essential intervention to prevent hospitalization and death, many of the people fleeing Ukraine are expected to not be fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” the center said in a statement Friday. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Saturday that it has recorded more than 468 million global COVID infections and more than 6 million deaths. Johns Hopkins said nearly 11 billion vaccines have been administered. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6492679.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6492679.html Sun, 20 Mar 2022 01:14:43 +0200 ZimbabweAfricaUSAHealthWorld (AP) - Tucked in a corner of a dimly-lit hallway of a rundown block of flats in Zimbabwe's Mbare township, a few drug users desperate for recovery prayed and encouraged each other to reduce their habits. They passed around a plate of cookies. Among those in the support group Is Adrias Chidemba, 28, who used to sell fruit and vegetables on Harare's streets and was saving to set up a small kiosk. But then COVID-19 hit and the months-long lockdown shattered his dreams. He said he took to drugs and alcohol to "numb the stress" and that his parents "took me as a madman and kicked me out of the house". The pandemic has contributed to a mental health crisis in Zimbabwe driven by substance abuse, say health professionals. Authorities and campaigners attribute it to loss of employment, prolonged school closures and anxiety resulting from COVID-19. At Sally Mugabe Hospital, one of the country's biggest, the majority of people passing through the psychiatric unit are substance users, said Nelson Makore, the unit's senior nursing officer. In 2019, the hospital attended to 150 substance abuse cases. That number spiked to 825 in 2020, he said. Zimbabwean health professionals are familiar with problems from marijuana use but now see more people turning to harder drugs such as heroin, cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, said Makore. Kudakwashe Madzima, leader of the Mbare township chapter of the Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network, says the group is a last hope for many. Even as their meeting was underway in Mbare, some other youths puffed marijuana nearby. At Tirivanhu Therapeutic Center, a mental health rehabilitation center about 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of the capital, Harare, people fortunate enough to find a place there work in the garden, a tree nursery and with livestock before engaging in counseling and sporting sessions in the afternoon. Offices have been converted into an accommodation wing due to increasing demand, said Timothy Sithole, a programs officer with the Zimbabwe National Association for Mental Health, which runs the home. "It's really sad," he said. "We have a capacity of only 17 people at a time.... So there is a backlog of people, a long list of people who are willing to have their relatives admitted here so that they can be rehabilitated," he added. The center charges $30 a month but also takes in some "really desperate cases" for free and receives some government support. Some private centers can charge between 10 to 20 times more, making them unaffordable to many, said Sithole. Some who fail to get support end up roaming the streets, he said. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6454013.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6454013.html Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:42:24 +0200 ZimbabweAfricaHealth Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia are the first African countries to receive technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines from the World Health Organization. Two of the vaccines used in the fight against COVID-19 are mRNA vaccines. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the award Friday in Brussels at the European Union-African Union summit. “No other event like the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that reliance on a few companies to supply global public goods is limiting, and dangerous,” Tedros said. “In the mid- to long-term, the best way to address health emergencies and reach universal health coverage is to significantly increase the capacity of all regions to manufacture the health products they need, with equitable access as their primary endpoint.” More than 80% of the population of the African continent has yet to receive a single dose of the COVID vaccine. “Much of this inequity has been driven by the fact that globally, vaccine production is concentrated in a few mostly high-income countries,” said Tedros. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that it has received a document that says the Biden administration will “surge” more than $250 million to 11 African countries for coronavirus vaccine campaigns. The countries slated to receive the “intensive support” are: Angola, Ivory Coast, Eswatini – formerly known as Swaziland, Ghana, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Friday that it has recorded more than 420 million global COVID cases and nearly 6 million deaths. The center said 10.3 billion vaccines have been administered. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6449700.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6449700.html Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:30:56 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s government says it will stop paying salaries of staff who are unvaccinated against COVID-19, while ordering those who have received jabs to report for work at their offices “with immediate effect,” after more than a year of most government employees working from home, state media reported Tuesday. The southern African country has in recent weeks relaxed restrictions on public gatherings as cases of the omicron variant appear to have started receding. Staff without proof of vaccination will be barred from their workplaces, face “disciplinary proceedings” and forfeit their pay, the state-run Herald newspaper reported, citing a government notice seen by The Associated Press. Those who cannot be vaccinated on medical grounds should provide an exemption certificate from a medical practitioner, according to the notice by the Public Service Commission, which is in charge of employment conditions for government workers. Government departments have been operating with skeleton staff while most employees worked from home as part of COVID-19 prevention measures since 2020. The government in September last year ordered all its 500,000 workers to get vaccinated against the virus. The country’s largest labor federation has gone to the courts to challenge vaccine mandates imposed by the government and private employers. About 22% of Zimbabwe's 15 million people have received two shots of vaccines and the government has introduced booster jabs for those interested. Late last year Zimbabwe introduced vaccinations for children aged 16 years and older, saying it has acquired enough vaccines, mainly Sinopharm and Sinovac from China. The government had aimed to vaccinate more than 60% of the population by the end of 2021 and is now trying to reach that goal in 2022. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6442699.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/6442699.html Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:58:21 +0200 ZimbabweAfricaHealth Some health officials say the discrepancy between rich and poor countries is discriminatory and has denied poor countries a chance to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the absence of vaccines. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/covid-inequity-coronavirus/6429626.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/covid-inequity-coronavirus/6429626.html Sun, 06 Feb 2022 14:41:47 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe Afrigen is one of the companies taking part in a World Health Organization-backed hub to develop vaccines for low- and middle-income countries. Afrigen Managing Director Petro Terblanche said the mRNA vaccine was made with the company's own knowledge base, processes and people. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/africa-s-first-mrna-covid-19-vaccine-produced-/6427391.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/africa-s-first-mrna-covid-19-vaccine-produced-/6427391.html Sat, 05 Feb 2022 01:05:17 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe "BA.2 ... has been reported in five countries, that is Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal as well as South Africa," Dr Nicksy Gumede-Moeletsi told an online media briefing. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/omicron-harder-to-identify-africa/6425660.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/omicron-harder-to-identify-africa/6425660.html Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:57:37 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe Malawi started administering the Pfizer vaccine to children ages 12 to 17 on January 1st to help contain the spread of the coronavirus among children.  https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/teenage-covid-19-vaccination-process-meets-resistance-in-malawi/6419080.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/teenage-covid-19-vaccination-process-meets-resistance-in-malawi/6419080.html Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:43:28 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthZimbabwe In a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the scientists said Britain’s people and the National Health Service have been placed at risk because of the UK’s global vaccination policy, according to a report in The Telegraph. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/scientists-call-rich-nations-failure-to-provide-vaccines-to-world-reckless-/6418075.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/scientists-call-rich-nations-failure-to-provide-vaccines-to-world-reckless-/6418075.html Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:57:43 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe “The Natural COVID-19 epidemic curve is indicating that the 4th wave is at its tail end and this wave appears to being brought under control.” https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-covid-19-regulations/6417408.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-covid-19-regulations/6417408.html Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:40:33 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthZimbabwe voadigital@voanews.com (Gibbs Dube) A NATO statement noted announced deployments or considerations for sending additional troops and equipment from multiple nations, including Denmark, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the United States. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/nato-members-sending-ships-jets-to-eastern-europe/6410472.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/nato-members-sending-ships-jets-to-eastern-europe/6410472.html Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:26:16 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe Two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. Then there were fewer than 100 cases and no deaths reported outside China. Those numbers now stand at nearly 350 million cases and more than 5.5 million deaths. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/who-chief-world-will-live-with-covid-19-for-foreseeable-future/6410465.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/who-chief-world-will-live-with-covid-19-for-foreseeable-future/6410465.html Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:21:02 +0200 NewsAfricaUSAHealthWorldZimbabwe The country has so far fully vaccinated just over a fifth of its population of 15 million people, mostly using vaccines either purchased from or donated by China. Nearly a third of Zimbabweans have received at least a single dose of the Chinese vaccine. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-china-covid-19-vaccines/6399224.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-china-covid-19-vaccines/6399224.html Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:52:07 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthZimbabwe COVAX is the international alliance working to ensure the equitable allotment of COVID vaccines to low- and medium-income countries. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/covax-delivers-billionth-vaccine/6399024.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/covax-delivers-billionth-vaccine/6399024.html Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:18:06 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe This is a bit of good news for a continent that has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is entering its third year. As of now, the World Health Organization reports more than 10 million people in Africa have been infected with coronavirus and more than 230,000 have died. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/omicron-surge-in-africa-is-flattening/6395891.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/omicron-surge-in-africa-is-flattening/6395891.html Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:14:42 +0200 NewsAfricaUSAHealthWorldZimbabwe The patient, David Bennett, 57, knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but he was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option, his son told The Associated Press. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/heart-transplant-big-to-man/6390950.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/heart-transplant-big-to-man/6390950.html Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:37:19 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthZimbabwe The newspaper quoted Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health, as saying, it costs over US$70,000 annually to train a single doctor. https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-doctors-nurses-training-recouping-millions-of-dollars/6376656.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-doctors-nurses-training-recouping-millions-of-dollars/6376656.html Fri, 31 Dec 2021 03:46:04 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthZimbabwe The eight countries, which include South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, will remain on a list of nations deemed as high-risk, with travellers from those nations subject to additional restrictions upon arrival https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/travel-ban-malaysia-south-africa-zimbabwe/6372935.html https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/travel-ban-malaysia-south-africa-zimbabwe/6372935.html Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:25:20 +0200 NewsAfricaHealthWorldZimbabwe