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ZORORO MAKAMBA-(30) DIES due to corona virus. A radio personality, broadcaster, entrepreneur and communication expert and son of telecommunications mogul James Makamba has died at Wilkins hospital due to Corona Virus having returned from the USA less than a month ago. Zororo Makamba was one of the two people who tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday.He was admitted to hospital in the capital Harare after exhibiting flu-like symptoms last Thursday, the health ministry said in a…

Zupco bus and kombi fares doubled yesterday to Zupco bus fares $2 and to $3 for further urban destinations, such as Chitungwiza compared to the minimum of $20 charged by kombis. Sibusiso Ngwenya Join Zimbabwe Global News group and encourage others to join 307,737 member now a third of a million, thank you for the fast growth, participation and continuous encouragement to others to join the group, and engage other progressive minded people in respectful…

BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson has announced an Italy-style lockdown on the UK to fight the coronavirus outbreak with gatherings of more than two people banned.This draconian move by the British Prime Minister arose after France earlier today announced that France would be shutting down its Borders with Britain , if Britain continued to fail to come on board the lockdown measures put in place by European countries to control the spread of Corona. Many…

SOUKOUS MUSIC LEGEND AURLUS MABELE succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a Paris hospital on Thursday night. Under his real name Aurélien Miatshonama, Mabélé founded Les Ndimbola Lokole with his friends in Brazzaville and recorded some of the hottest hits that moved the African continent in the 1970s, such as Embargo, Zebola and Waka Waka. Later, he moved to Paris where he founded another band, Loketo, meaning “hips” in Lingala – the language of…

‘MEDICAL PRACTITIONER Dr Anthony Hardcombe and his clinic trading as Albert Zinn Medical Centre along with pharmacist Zivai Mapenda sued for US$70 000 after the pharmacist negligently mislabelled the sachets of the prescribed medication, resulting in a patient suffering acute kidney injuries’. A Harare man has been awarded $20 000 compensation for taking wrong quantities of medicine after a pharmacist at a private clinic negligently mislabelled the sachets of the prescribed medication, resulting in him…

NEW YORK CORONA VIRUS OUTBREAK will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city’s mayor has said. “We’re about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages,” Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. “If we don’t get more ventilators people will die.” New York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country’s cases. There are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide,…

48 UK Corona deaths since Saturday includes 37 in England, seven in Wales, 3 in Scotland and 1in Northern Ireland , total UK cases now 5,683.

Boris Johnson has warned “tougher measures” could be introduced if people do not take the government’s coronavirus advice seriously as UK deaths reach 281, including a person aged 18 with an underlying health condition. .