WATCH: Second Covid-19 case confirmed in Zimbabwe

A second confirmed case of Covid-19 had been announced.

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health and Child Care Obadiah Moyo made the announcement on Saturday urging Zimbabweans to using verified information only from the government channels.

The case is of a Zimbabwean who visited the US and returned.

Today, the 21 st March 2020, the National
Microbiology Reference Laboratory at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital confirmed yet another case of COVID-19 which brings to two the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe.
This second patient is a 30-year-old male resident of Harare, who had travelled to New York, United States of America on the29th February 2020 and returned home in Harare on the 9th of March 2020 via Johannesburg. He started exhibiting mild symptoms (flu-like illness) on the 12th March 2020 which progressively got worse on the 19th March 2020.
He consulted with his doctor who advised him to self-isolate at home. The doctor alerted the local COVID-19 Rapid
Response Team that immediately went to assess him and recommended that he continues with the self-isolation at home. Specimens were collected and sent to the Reference lab for testing.
Yesterday evening, he developed severe respiratory distress and after stabilisation at home, was admitted for isolation and clinical management at Wilkins Hospital. The Reference lab confirmed his COVID-19 positive results early this morning.
Our teams are now engaged in contact tracing and as with the first case, are being assisted by the patient himself.
Once again, we call upon everyone to remain calm as we manage these confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe.