Zimbabwe’s coronavirus cases have risen to 387 after 4 new cases were recorded in Mashonaland Central (3) and Harare (1).

The Ministry of Health reports that all the new cases are returnees from South Africa.

This comes amid claims that some returnees are contracting the virus in substandard quarantine centres.

The new cases were recorded on Monday as the nation prayed for an end to the pandemic which has claimed four lives.

Coronavirus has affected 387 people in Zimbabwe from the 59 194 tested so far but 58 cases have been closed after 54 recovered.

The nation today held a national prayer and fasting day at State House at the invitation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ask for God’s intervention to end the pandemic.

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Businessman Strive Masiyiwa, who has been appointed the African Union special envoy to help fight the pandemic, today said the 45 ICU ventilators he promised to Zimbabwe have been delivered.

He said Zimbabwe will receive another 200 ventilators from the batch of 1 000 that is being manufactured in South Africa.