{"id":21262,"date":"2020-03-28T19:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=21262"},"modified":"2020-03-28T19:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:33:44","slug":"chiwenga-returns-after-china-medical-check-up-to-chair-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiwenga-returns-after-china-medical-check-up-to-chair-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Chiwenga Returns After China Medical Check-Up \u2013 To Chair Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Chiwenga\u2019s private jet hired from Dubai landed in Harare at 22.15PM on Friday, according to flight-tracking websites. The luxuriously-fitted Airbus A318-112 (CJ) Elite made a stop-over for refuelling in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after taking off from the Chinese capital, Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>George Charamba, the spokesman for the presidency, confirmed that Chiwenga was back in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen him as yet, but I can confirm he\u2019s back. You\u2019d have heard that on Friday, the president appointed him chairman of the Covid-19 taskforce and that tells you he will hit the ground running,\u201d Charamba told ZimLive by phone.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old Chiwenga spent the greater part of last year in hospitals in South Africa, India and China, where he received treatment for more than six months.<\/p>\n<p>He told his family and friends when he returned home in December that he had been treated for esophageal stricture, the abnormal narrowing of the esophagus which causes patients difficulties in swallowing and leads to dramatic weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Before his latest trip, he had returned to China at least once since December for what Charamba described as a \u201croutine medical check-up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chiwenga is in the middle of a messy divorce from his wife, Mary, which has spilled over to the Supreme Court as the couple fight over the custody of their three young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed. Chiwenga\u2019s private jet hired from Dubai landed in Harare at 22.15PM on Friday, according to flight-tracking websites. The luxuriously-fitted Airbus A318-112 (CJ) Elite made a stop-over for refuelling in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after taking off from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[104,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-21262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-chiwenga","10":"tag-emmerson-mnangagwa"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chiwenga Returns After China Medical Check-Up \u2013 To Chair Covid-19 - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiwenga-returns-after-china-medical-check-up-to-chair-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiwenga Returns After China Medical Check-Up \u2013 To Chair Covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiwenga-returns-after-china-medical-check-up-to-chair-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-28T17:33:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/Chiwenga1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"552\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiwenga-returns-after-china-medical-check-up-to-chair-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiwenga-returns-after-china-medical-check-up-to-chair-covid-19\",\"name\":\"Chiwenga Returns After China Medical Check-Up \u2013 To Chair Covid-19 - 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