2021-01-23 02:35:37 GMT2021-01-23 10:35:37(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HARARE, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) Authorities confirmed that Zimbabwe s Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Joel Matiza died of COVID-19 on Friday.
Matiza has thus become the third government minister to die of the virus within a week and the fourth since the virus was first reported in the country in March 2020.
As the pandemic continues ravaging the country, the nation has yet to bury Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who died of the virus on Wednesday. Earlier on Jan. 15, Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Ellen Gwaradzimba succumbed to the virus.
3rd Zimbabwean minister dies of COVID-19 within a week ANI | Updated: Jan 23, 2021 08:47 IST
Harare [Zimbabwe], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Authorities confirmed that Zimbabwe s Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Joel Matiza died of COVID-19 on Friday.
Matiza has thus become the third government minister to die of the virus within a week and the fourth since the virus was first reported in the country in March 2020.
As the pandemic continues ravaging the country, the nation has yet to bury Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who died of the virus on Wednesday. Earlier on January 15, Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Ellen Gwaradzimba succumbed to the virus.
‘Unity essential in Covid-19 fight’
Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter
President Mnangagwa yesterday urged the nation to unite in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic to suppress the spike in deaths related to the disease.
He made the plea yesterday while presiding over the burials of the late Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba and the late Zanu PF Central Committee member Cde Moton Dizzy Paul Malianga at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.
Dr Gwaradzimba succumbed to Covid-19 complications in Harare last week with the pandemic killing more than 879 people since March last year.
President Mnangagwa addresses mourners gathered at the burial of National Hero Cde Morton Malianga and National Heroine Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba at the National Heroes Acre, in Harare yesterday