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Zimbabwe down to only 164 active coronavirus cases as a record 1 122 recover

A whopping 1 122 people recovered from coronavirus today leaving Zimbabwe with only 164 active cases, the bulk of them being in Bulawayo.

Harare, which had 1 138 active cases yesterday is now down to 29 after a whopping 1 114 people recovered while only three people in Bulawayo recovered leaving the city with 63 active cases.

There were 10 new cases bringing the total to date to 8 021 but some 7 627 have recovered and 230 have died.

The number of cases rose to 38 million globally and include 1.08 million deaths, 28.5 million recoveries and 8.4 million active cases.

The United States which has the highest number of cases just surpassed 8 million today.

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Charles Rukuni

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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