{"id":45951,"date":"2021-09-01T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=45951"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:18:24","slug":"covid-19-battling-minister-mathema-airlifted-to-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/covid-19-battling-minister-mathema-airlifted-to-harare","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19-Battling Minister Mathema Airlifted To Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Primary and secondary education minister Cain Ginyilitshe Mathema has been airlifted to Harare from Bulawayo after his health deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old was admitted to the United Bulawayo Hospitals\u2019 refurbished Covid-19 facility in mid-August after catching the respiratory illness.<\/p>\n<p>ZimLive was told that the minister was flown to Harare on August 28 and is now admitted at Arundel Mediclinic. One person briefed on the minister\u2019s condition said:<\/p>\n<p>He had excessive fluids in his lungs and was getting progressively worse. I understand some kind of surgical procedure has been performed. He\u2019s not in a good shape, but he\u2019s battling.<\/p>\n<p>Mathema did not take part in the decision to re-open schools this week, criticised as an \u201cambush\u201d by teachers\u2019 unions and parents over the short notice given by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s Covid-19 infections have gone down dramatically since June when schools were supposed to re-open for the second term. On Monday, there were 144 new infections detected and 15 deaths, according to the ministry of health.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health and Child Care has indicated that about 98 per cent of coronavirus cases recorded in Zimbabwe recently are of the highly contagious Delta variant that was first detected in India.<\/p>\n<p>More: ZimLive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Primary and secondary education minister Cain Ginyilitshe Mathema has been airlifted to Harare from Bulawayo after his health deteriorated. The 74-year-old was admitted to the United Bulawayo Hospitals\u2019 refurbished Covid-19 facility in mid-August after catching the respiratory illness. ZimLive was told that the minister was flown to Harare on August 28 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1361,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2051,5160,5742,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-45951","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-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-cain-mathema","14":"tag-ministry-of-health-and-child-care-mohcc","15":"tag-ministry-of-primary-and-secondary-education-mopse","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>COVID-19-Battling Minister Mathema Airlifted To Harare - 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