Six people at Harare hospital have tested positive for COVID-19. The infections were discovered at the maternity hospital purely by chance during swab testing training where patients and workers were all routinely tested.
The breakdown is as follows: Two patients, one doctor and three nurses.
The development comes after a 7y old girl who the government says has Malaria (but tested COVID positive) dropped dead at Mapiravana Clinic over in Midlands. She has no travel history but had physical contact with a Malaria patient at St Theresa. Her symptoms were: abdominal pains, fever, general weakness for over 3 weeks.
Ministry Of Health officials have instructed practitioners to register the death as that of Malaria.
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She was given the below prescription drugs:
A 7y old girl who govt says has Malaria but tested COVID + has dropped dead at Mapiravana Clinic. She has no travel history but had physical contact with a Malaria death at St Theresa. Her symptoms: abdominal pains, fever, gen weakness for 3 wks. @WHO_Zimbabwe @MuzvareBetty pic.twitter.com/YK017T3UUk
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) April 30, 2020
Efforts to obtain a comment from Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo were fruitless at the time of publishing as his phone was ringing without being answered.
The Harare Hospital update was posted by former SundayMail editor Edmund Kudzayi. ZimEye is following up on the development.