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The Zimbabwean health minister has been charged in a case looking at government contracts awarded during the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n

Obadiah Moyo appeared in court on Saturday over allegations he illegally handed a contract for Covid-19 testing kits, drugs and personal protective equipment to a shadowy company.<\/p>\n

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He has now been charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer.<\/p>\n

The former hospital administrator was arrested by the national anti-corruption<\/a> agency on Friday \u2013 the day before his court appearance.<\/p>\n

Local journalists exposed how the health minister allegedly chose the company to sell medical supplies to the government at inflated prices that included face masks for 28 dollars (\u00a322) each.<\/p>\n

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