Govt fails to allocate 15% of the budget to health

📅 Published: August 16, 2025

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Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport had the highest number of passengers screened 12 331 people being screened while 73 passengers were put on surveillance.

A further 1 347 passengers were screened at Victoria Falls International Airport where 62 people were put under surveillance while 1 164 passengers were screened and 243 put under surveillance at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo.

AT Forbes Border Post in Manicaland, 1 513 people were careen although no-one was put under surveillance while screening of passengers was also conducted along the Beitbridge Road, Kangula Border Post and Plumtree Road.

In a Situational Report, the Ministry of Health and Child Care, local transmission started on March 24, 2020. “Zimbabwe has reported 8 cases with one death since the onset of the outbreak and the first imported case was reported on the 21st of March 2020,” the report states.

The first case was reported in Victoria Falls where a man who had travelled to the United Kingdom developed COVID-19 symptoms and was advised to self-isolate.

He was later screened and tested positive of the virus. 🔗

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