Harare (New Ziana)-The number of Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe has spiked to 42 after four more people tested positive to the virus on Friday, the Ministry of Health and Child Care has said.

In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the four positive tests were from Mashonaland West, Mashonaland East and Harare.

“The Ministry reports that 4 cases tested positive for Covid-19 today.1 (One) positive case from Mashonaland East Province and 1 from Harare, both travellers from South Africa. The other 2 are from a quarantine centre in Mashonaland West Province,” it said in a daily update.

“To date we have 42 confirmed cases, 13 recoveries, 4 deaths and 25 active cases since the onset of the outbreak on 20 March 2020,” said the Ministry in a daily update.

The four new positive cases came out of 659 rapid and 370 PCR tests that were done on Friday in both the public and private laboratories.

Cumulatively, 14 077 Rapid and 11 401 PCR Covid-19 tests have been done to date in Zimbabwe.

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