{"id":29674,"date":"2020-11-02T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=29674"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:53:21","slug":"minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Minister tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Larry Mavima has tested positive for Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Minister Mavima has since gone into self isolation at his home and is recovering well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an interview from his home, the Minister said he doesn\u2019t have any serious complications and is following the World Health Organisation and Ministry of Health and Child Care guidelines to curb the spread of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sirius-dfp-inarticle\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief The Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Larry Mavima has tested positive for Covid-19. Minister Mavima has since gone into self isolation at his home and is recovering well. In an interview from his home, the Minister said he doesn\u2019t have any serious complications and is following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1361,7],"tags":[1388,1313],"class_list":{"0":"post-29674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-coronavirus-in-zimbabwe","9":"category-files","10":"tag-covid-19","11":"tag-larry-mavima"},"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>Minister tests positive for Covid-19 - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau ChiefThe Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Larry Mavima has\" \/>\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\/minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister tests positive for Covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau ChiefThe Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Larry Mavima has\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-02T18:53:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/world-coronavirus-death-toll-exceeds-250-000-1588670286859-680x380-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\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<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\/minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19\",\"name\":\"Minister tests positive for Covid-19 - 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