LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister
Perrance Shiri, endured a difficult and lonely death in his car, as he tried in
vain to drive himself to a hospital for treatment.
Shiri’s death also came as information filtered through
that a number of senior government and Zanu PF officials have contracted the
deadly disease, having come into contact with infected people in recent days.
As a measure of how much a problem Covid-19 has become in
the country, President Emmerson Mnangagwa revealed yesterday that two former
Cabinet ministers — Obert Mpofu and Simbarashe Mumbengegwi — were in
self-quarantine.
This came as it also emerged that the daughter of Defence
minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, Tanya Rushesha, had been battling the novel
coronavirus.
However, Rushesha later posted on social media yesterday
that she had since fully recovered from the killer virus.
Mnangagwa led the chorus of tributes to 65-year-old Shiri
yesterday — who had exchanged his military fatigues for the position of
Agriculture minister when the late former president Robert Mugabe was ousted
from power in November 2017 via a popular coup. Daily News
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