By Jane Mlambo| Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus is in shambles amid unconfirmed reports that the country has been operating with on only 500 test kits with the 20 000 from Alibaba Foundation and Jack Ma not usable due to some missing reagents.

A classified document circulating on social media shows that Zimbabwe only received 500 and 20 000 tests kits from the World Health Organisation and Alibaba Foundation respectively while consignments donated by Ecobank, Global Fund and HDF-UNICEF still to be delivered.

Government has not procured any test kits on its own but is relying on donations something that explains why the number of tested persons remain very low as compared to other countries.

Government is also running one testing centre which is situated by Harare Central hospital where samples collected all over the country are brought for testing which takes about five hours to produce results against global standard kits that only require 15 minutes.

Below is the classified document showing the number of test kits available and those waiting delivery.