Environmental Health Issues

21/05/2020

Three more new cases taking the tally to fifty one,

29/04/2020

Update: 8 more new cases, now in Zimbabwe we are at 40 confirmed cases. Serious contact tracing and testing, testing, testing is needed. Stay home and stay safe!

28/04/2020

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27/04/2020

26/04/2020

Covid-19 cases have risen to 31 with 3 new cases according to the Ministry of Health and Child Care. 2 of the 3 new cases are due to local transmission. Stay home and be safe!

26/04/2020

Local transmission is a more rapid form of transmission and the most difficult to control. Stay home and be safe!

24/04/2020

-19. 29 cases recorded to date. Stay home and stop the spread!

06/02/2020

How best can we help the most impoverished communities in Zimbabwe who cannot afford building materials to achieve zero-open defaecation and reduce the incidence of diarrhoel diseases?

06/02/2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new coronavirus that has killed at least 490 people in mainland China and two more elsewhere following an outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new coronavirus that has killed at least 490 people in mainland China and two more elsewhere following an outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. More than 24,500 cases have been reported worldwide, most of them...

05/02/2020

Rural areas in most parts of Zimbabwe are facing serious shortages of safe water come dry season. This is due to scanty rainfall being received in the 2020 rainy season. As most rural populations depend on drilled boreholes using type B bush pumps, the water tables are receding which will make it difficult for people to draw water. Village heads will be forced to ration the water like what was seen in the past with a standard family of 5 living on 2 buckets of water per day. What can really be done to address this issue? So that our people are sustained through the dreadful dry season.