Faith Duri
Masvingo province has a total of 116 Covid-19 cases with 106 of them being active ones while 10 of them are new positive according to statistics recently released.
In an interview with TellZim News Masvingo Covid-19 provincial taskforce spokesperson Rodgers Irimayi acknowledged the recent spike in positive cases in both the province and the country at large.
“There is a rise in Covid-19 cases in the province and as a country at large but it is not an alarming number since quite a number of people are being vaccinated. Our statistics shows that more than 6 million people received their first jab and 4 million received the second dose and 829 558 were injected under the booster shot country wide,” said Irimayi.
He also added that they have taken responsible measures to ensure that the cases keep decreasing.
“All our clinics are now vaccination centres. Also we are have changed our vaccination centres into mobile clinics and our health care people are moving door to door in different districts vaccinating people.
“We are urging people to be vaccinated with all the three dosages henceforth reducing Covid-19 cases in the province,” he said.
He however said no particular place or institution can be singled out as having recorded a huge number of Covid-19 cases.
“I cannot say there is a particular institution or place where the cases are mostly recorded but the cases are recorded in all districts since we record two or three cases per district.
“However, we are advising people to mask up and continue maintaining social distancing,” added Irimayi.
According to latest figures Chiredzi had 3 cases while Masvingo had two, Gutu one and four were recorded in private health institutions.
As at June 07 2022 Zimbabwe had 253 637 confirmed cases including 245 596 recoveries and 5 515 deaths while to date a total of 6 238 158 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Harare had the highest rate of recorded cases with 464 active cases followed by Bulawayo with 450 cases, Mashonaland East has 373 cases, Matabeleland South 331 cases, Midlands 226, Manicaland 194, Mashonaland West 167, Matabeleland North 166, Mashonaland Central 136 and Masvingo with 115 cases.
