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Active coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe drop as 29 recover

The number of active coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe today dropped to 250 after 29 people recovered from the virus while there were only 15 new cases.

Bulawayo which has the highest number of active cases had 17 recoveries and three new cases resulting in the number of active cases in the city dropping from 130 to 116.

Zimbabwe now has 8 257 cases and 7 771 recoveries.

There are 42.4 million cases across the globe which include 1.15 million deaths, 31.4 million recoveries and 9.9 million active cases.

France has joined the million-case league becoming the seventh country to have more than one million cases.

Colombia could soon join that league as it has about 10 000 cases shy of a million.

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Charles Rukuni

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