Harare (New Ziana) – One more Covid-19 patient has recovered, taking the total of people who have healed from the disease in Zimbabwe to 13, the Ministry of Health and Child Care has said.

The Ministry confirmed the latest recovery in its Wednesday daily update.

“The latest recovery is a man from Harare who was confirmed following two consecutive PCR negative test results from samples taken at least 24 hours apart,” it said.

This means Zimbabwe currently has 20 active Covid-19 cases.

“The Ministry would like to report that today (Wednesday), 830 rapid screening tests and 133 PCR tests were done both in the public and private sector. All the PCR tests done today (Wednesday) were negative for Covid-19. Therefore to date Zimbabwe has 37 confirmed cases including 13 recoveries and four deaths.”

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