The government has assured the public that it has enough medicines to treat the symptoms of covid-19. This was said by the chairperson of the committee in charge of medicines during the Covid 19 crisis, Dr Sekesayi Nzenza, announces a ZBC news reader, to which the minister then says:

“when we were hit by the covid-19 pandemic that has spread around the whole world, us as Zimbabweans, president Emmerson Mnangagwa put together a task force from the cabinet to lead in the effort to to curb the covid-19 disease. To prevent and treat the disease, we need medicines; So Caps Pharmaceuticals has powers and expertise to produce other medicines, desperately needed to treat covid-19. We have heard from Farirai Mutema, that number 1 drug, capable of reducing the body temperature of a patient, is Paracetamol.

“Paracetamol is being produced right here at Caps Pharmaceuticals.

“Right now as you can see, this is an analgesic.

“we have a lot of paracetamol. We have increased our production. To ensure that the public when they they are now experiencing high temperatures, when they are now being pained, they will no longer be troubled of paracetamol scarcity, because we have paracetamol here at Caps.”