Paul Nyathi

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has gone into length trying to explain the National Recovery Rate for Covid-19 which shot to 95.1 percent with the country recording 1122 recoveries as of Monday.

Previously, the rate was standing at 81 percent.

The Ministry said the huge jump was a result of follow ups done on recorded active cases.

The country’s figures of active cases has remained stuck on over 1500 for months since the number of new cases ballooned as a result of accelerated testing.

The sudden discovery of the huge number of recoveries by the Ministry shows that the Ministry has not been monitoring the Covid-19 cases which is a serious incompetence according to WHO standards.

“There are 1122 new recoveries reported. National Recovery Rate rises to 95.1 percent and active cases go down to 164 today. Harare reported 1114 recoveries today (yesterday) after following up the cases,” the Ministry said.

It added that 10 new cases were also recorded on Monday and no deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours.

As of 12 October 2020, Zimbabwe has now recorded 8021 cases, 7627 recoveries and 230 deaths so far.