Farai Dziva|Opposition party, MDC says health workers are badly exposed to the deadly Coronavirus such that government should implement measures to avert an impending catastrophe.

In a statement MDC health secretary Dr Henry Madzorera said:

” Our health workers are still working without the necessary Personal Protective Equipment, and this is extremely worrisome.

We are now dealing with a full fledged outbreak and we should not wait for mass fatalities to start acting.

Our narrow window of opportunity to prepare is fast running out.

How many health workers were exposed in this particular case?

Why are we hesitant to test suspects? Does government really have testing kits, adequate to meet this threat? We implore government to disclose exactly how many cases they can test now.

Government needs to cry out loud to the corporate sector and to ordinary citizens at large if we have a shortage of test kits. By now we should be doing tests in the provinces, leaving the NMRL to be a confirmation centre, backed up by the regional collaborative laboratory in South Africa.