{"id":23189,"date":"2020-05-15T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=23189"},"modified":"2020-05-15T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:45:09","slug":"ministry-of-health-covid-19-update-15-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ministry-of-health-covid-19-update-15-may-2020","title":{"rendered":"Ministry Of Health COVID-19 Update \u2013 15 May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has posted the following COVID -19 update for today:<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulatively, 14 077 Rapid and 11 401 PCR Covid-19 tests have been done to date in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has posted the following COVID -19 update for today: 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. 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