Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and the
party’s communications director Tafadzwa Mugwadi tested positive for Covid-19
over a week ago.
Moyo said he tested positive for the coronavirus last
Monday, but said he was asymptomatic.
“I am self-isolating at home, but for now I am not feeling
any pain and I am still asymptomatic, but I am taking as much as possible
caution while at home,” he told Cite.
Moyo became the third Provincial Affairs minister to contract
the virus after his Midlands counterpart Larry Mavhima and Mary Mliswa Chikoka
from Mashonaland West.
Other government officials that have tested positive for
the disease since the Covid-19 outbreak began in March include Public Services,
Labour and Social Welfare deputy minister Lovemore Matuke and Finance and
Economic Development permanent secretary George Guvamatanga.
The then Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement
minister Perrance Shiri succumbed to the disease in July.
In August, 26 Zanu PF employees tested positive for the
disease. Zimbabwe has been witnessing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases for the
past two months and Friday the country recorded 74 new infections with one
death.
As of Friday, Zimbabwe had recorded 11 127 Covid-19 cases
with 9 253 recoveries. The country has seen 305 deaths.
Meanwhile, Portia Manangazira, the Health and Child Care
ministry’s director of epidemiology and diseases control, on Friday said there
was need for Zimbabweans to remain vigilant as Covid-19 would remain a threat
to public health for some time.
Manangazira told the Zimbabwe National Practitioners
Association annual general meeting in Karoi on Friday that there was a risk of
a second Covid-19 wave due to increased travel during the festive season.
‘‘Covid-19 is still with us for the next two or three
years,” she said. “We must wear masks, regularly sanitise for our own good
health. We must share information and researches so that we get solutions.
Scientifically, efforts are being made to find medication.
“As Zimbabwe we remain on the forefront to do the best out
of it and help get medication with traditionalists playing a critical role for
medication.
“Let us value our cultural ways so that we can collaborate
and make researches that can be accepted globally to cure Covid-19.” Standard
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