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Three more positive raising the number of coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe to 206

Three more Zimbabweans, two who returned from Botswana and one local, tested positive for the coronavirus raising the number of cases in the country to 206.

Only 29 have recovered so far and four have died leaving 173 active cases.

Harare has the highest number of active cases at 81 followed by Masvingo with 33.

Bulawayo, which was down to two active cases, is now at eight.

So far 48 392 people have been tested.

Globally there are now 6.4 million cases but there are now more closed cases than active ones.

Nearly three million people have recovered and more than 380 600 have died.

The United States has 1.1 million active cases out of the total of 3.1 million.

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This post was last modified on June 2, 2020 9:59 pm

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