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Zimbabwe coronavirus cases shoot past 500

Zimbabwe today recorded 23 new coronavirus cases, 21 from returning residents from South Africa and two local, raising the number of cases to 512.

It has so far tested 63 347 people and has 442 active cases, 64 recoveries and six deaths.

Globally, there are now 9.1 million cases which include 472 200 deaths, 4.9 million people that have recovered and 3.8 million active cases.

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This post was last modified on June 22, 2020 8:05 pm

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The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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