The officer in charge of Shamva Support Unit training camp, Inspector Machaye was taken an ambulance Saturday night after a suspected COVID-19 attack.

The development comes as 300 police officers who are on quarantine at Shamva battle camp awaiting Covid 19 results defied being locked at the battle camp.

Almost three quarters left the battle camp on Friday to withdraw their salaries. The police officers are arguing that they can’t be quarantined by ZRP that is failing to provide them with masks and sanitizers.

This is a serious issue concerning the spread of Covid 19 in Zimbabwe, a source told ZimEye.

They continued, “Both the community and the police officers themselves are not safe. “Our government doesn’t care.”

It has also emerged, of 300 officers taken from different departments and various districts and are supposed to be undergoing Support Unit training: Two of them have since tested positive to Covid because when they went for training – they had been tested and awaiting results. One source said: There is fear of a serious Covid outbreak at Shamva.

The remaining police officers have been tested but for two weeks now the results are still to come. Why is the government keeping a gathering of police officers at Shamva yet it’s banning gatherings all over the country?

There is no shortage of Support unit officers who are struggling to get accommodation and most of them spend the whole month playing football and doing guard duties.

Those poor souls are exposed to Covid and they will pass it on to the public.