Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, as presented by the Chairman of the National COVID-19 Inter-Ministerial Committee, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Honourable Dr. C.G.D.N. Chiwenga.
The nation is informed that since the outbreak of the pandemic, the country’s cumulative COVID-19 cases reached 257 905 as at 16th October 2022, with 251 916 recoveries and 5 608 deaths. The recovery rate was 98%, with 381 active cases recorded. A total of 156 new cases were recorded during the week, compared to 211 recorded the previous week. Of the total number of new cases reported during the week, eight (8) were detected at St Alberts High School, Muzarabani district, Mashonaland Central. For the week under review there were twenty-two new admissions’ compared to the twenty-one recorded the previous week. Of these, two were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
