Seventy-one people at the Beitbridge isolation centre, Zimbabwe, tested positive to COVID-19 with 59 of them being local cases referred from the district hospital.
“As of today (Monday), there are currently 71 (55 males and 16 females) individuals at Beitbridge isolation centre who tested positive for COVID-19, 59 of whom are local cases referred from the district hospital,” report says.
“On January 10, several self-repatriating migrants (69 male adults, five male minors, 88 female adults and eight female minors) passed through the border post in 14 buses, they all had valid COVID-19-free results and were processed to go home.”
Zimbabwe had 22, 297 confirmed cases, 13, 213 recoveries, 8 556 active cases and 528 deaths. Government, last week, imposed a hard national lockdown to curb the spread of the pandemic.