Source: Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe |

Coronavirus - Zimbabwe: COVID-19 update, 10th July 2020

HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 11, 2020/APO Group/ --

Highlights of the situation report

  • Sixteen (16) cases tested positive for COVID-19. These include returnees from South Africa (7), Botswana (1) and 8 local cases who are isolated.
  • Fourteen (14) recoveries were reported by Bulawayo Province.
  • We regret to report a community death of a 63-year-old female from Matabeleland North Province, this was detected during a routine post mortem and awaiting post mortem results to determine the cause of death.
  • 393 RDT screening tests and 659 PCR diagnostic tests were done. The cumulative number of tests done to date is 87264 (51259 RDT and 36005 PCR).
  • To date the total number of confirmed cases is 942; recovered 320, active cases 609 and 13 deaths, since the onset of the outbreak on 20 March 2020.

Number of tests done

Number of Confirmed Cases

Number

Recovered

Number of

Active

Cases

Deceased

Province

RDT

PCR

New

Cum

New

Cum

New

Cum

Bulawayo

12

154

8

162

14

39

119

0

4

Harare

57

335

0

288

0

76

206

0

6

Manicaland

90

0

0

30

0

13

17

0

0

Mash Cent.

0

12

0

10

0

4

6

0

0

Mash East

12

15

0

82

0

43

39

0

0

Mash West

0

0

0

54

0

2

51

0

1

Midlands

11

3

2

83

0

57

25

0

1

Masvingo

173

60

4

57

0

51

6

0

0

Mat North

38

23

2

25

0

13

11

1

1

Mat South

0

57

0

151

0

22

129

0

0

Total

393

659

16

942

14

320

609

1

13

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Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe.