Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who has been in South Africa for the last couple of weeks was earlier today flown to China for further medical attention after the Zimbabwean government engaged its Chinese counterparts to help rescue the ailing former army commander.

According to a press statement by presidential spokesman George Charamba “his relocation to China, which builds on the satisfactory recovery progress he has been making, follows weekend discussions at the highest levels between the governments of Zimbabwe and China, at which a decision was made to allow Chinese medical experts to join their expert counterparts from Zimbabwe, South Africa and India in attending to the Vice President.”

The Spotlight Zimbabwe website has previously claimed that Chiwenga was poisoned during a private lunch meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a luxury hotel in Harare last year.