Zimbabwe has witnessed its worst coronavirus infections on record this month but so far only 260 people have died which is much lower than 1 743 who died in July after 58 996 people were infected, or 887 in August when 15 913 got infected and 854 in January which had 19 521 infections.
Twenty-seven people died yesterday and 2 107 were infected but 3 953 recovered with active cases dropping to 30 772.
Mashonaland East and Mashonaland West are now the hotspots with 6 310 and 5 782 cases, respectively.
Harare is down to 2 970 cases after 843 people recovered yesterday while in Bulawayo 750 people recovered bringing the number of cases down to 2 782.
The recovery rate rose to 83% while the positivity rate was 27.3% which is still high.
More than 12 000 people were vaccinated yesterday with 5 366 getting the first dose and 6 586 the second.
A further 653 got the third, booster shot, and so far 4 596 people have received three doses.
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