The COVID-19 death toll has is slowly edging towards 100 as the Ministry Of Health announced that so far 67 people have died because of the novel coronavirus. This was revealed in the update that was released by the ministry which states that:
Seventy-seven cases tested positive for Covid-19 today. These include 67 local cases and 10 returnees, South Africa (7) Botswana (3) who have been isolated.
Today we report the results of 14 deaths which occurred from 26-31 July 2020 in the community and on admission to casualty departments at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and other hospitals after investigations and postmortems were done.
These include 11 males and three females from Harare, Mashonaland West, Manicaland and Bulawayo provinces and has respiratory compatible with Covid-19 and PCR tests came positive for Covid-19.
As at 31 July, Zimbabwe had 3 169 confirmed cases, including 1 004 recoveries 67 deaths