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*FULL TEXT: Zimbabwe Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update – 22 APRIL 2020* *Follow Pindula on WhatsApp for daily new updates* https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va84dngJP21B2nWeyM3v?jh > CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) UPDATE: 22 APRIL 2020 > The Ministry would like to report that all the 65 outstanding results from yesterday were negative for COVID-19. > Today, a total of 831 tests were done as detailed in Table I below, giving a total of 4 990 screening and diagnostic tests done to date. > Therefore, to date, Zimbabwe has twenty-eight confirmed cases, including two recoveries and four deaths. > Distribution of tests done today Mash West – 111 Mat. North – 13 Manicaland – 62 Masvingo – 110 Mash. East – 34 Mash. Central – 65 Mat. South – 74 Midlands – 37 Harare – 101 Bulawayo – 224 TOTALS – 831 > All the PCR tests done in Harare were negative for COVID-19 and at the time of print, 101 PCR results from Bulawayo were still pending. > Number of confirmed cases to date Matabeleland North – 1 Bulawayo – 10 Harare – 12 Mashonaland East – 4 Mashonaland West – 1 Total – 28 > Case #26 reported yesterday is a 49-year-old male resident of Harare who recently returned from the United Kingdom. He is symptomatic, with mild-moderate disease and is receiving medical management under mandatory isolation. > Case #27 reported yesterday was an 82-year-old female resident of Mhondoro who had no history of recent travel or any known contact with a COVID-19 case. > She was reportedly well until the 16th of April 2020 when she developed a flu-like illness with chest symptoms. She received medical treatment with an antibiotic and analgesia, and the symptoms reportedly improved. > However, her condition deteriorated on the 19th of April 2020 and she was ferried to Harare and admitted in a hospital in Harare on the 20 of April 2020. > On admission, the managing clinicians suspected COVID-19 and immediately isolated her and called in the local Rapid Response Team for assessment and sample collection. > Sadly, she deceased in the evening of the 21 of April 2020, giving us a total of four COVID-19 related deaths reported to date. > Case #28 also reported yesterday is a 25-year-old male resident of Harare who recently returned from the United Kingdom. He is asymptomatic, with mild disease and is recovering under mandatory isolation. > The Ministry continues to be on HIGH alert to the COVID-19 pandemic and would like to remind the nation that, the most effective ways to protect yourself and others against COVID-19 are to practise good personal hygiene and exercise social distancing. > For assistance, please call the COVID-19 tollfree hotline number: 2019 _If you found this article useful_ *Please support Pindula by forwarding to friends and groups*
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