{"id":450,"date":"2022-06-15T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=450"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:02:23","slug":"flu-or-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"FLU OR COVID-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09 December 2021<br>Lindie Dube<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A strange flu that has been affecting mostly children is now attacking indiscriminately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past weeks, the flu has been affecting all age groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a different story Zim GBC News reported on the flu outbreak that was affecting children of school going age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flu symptoms include fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, chest congestion, runny nose, headache and fatigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many fear that the flu could be related to the newly discovered Covid-19 Variant Omicron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI could not breathe properly or eat, had chest pains and a very sore throat couldn\u2019t even stand up straight,&#8221; said Doreen Machirori who had the flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf people were to get tested for this flu am quite sure many would test positive for Covid-19\u201d, said an interviewee who preferred anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Permanent Secretary in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services President Nick Mangwana Tweeted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe number of people l know who are testing positive to Covid-19 is a serious concern, it\u2019s like a wave.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor solwayo replied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cits more than a wave, l have never seen it before its a sweeping tsunami, Omicron!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the cabinet briefing held yesterday it was agreed that;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Government will be establishing vaccination sites at the main intra and inter-city bus terminals, so as to ensure that those not vaccinated but wish to do so, can have doses administered before they board public transport.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will come a time when people will not be allowed to board public transport without a valid vaccination card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at yesterday&#8217;s report, there has been 4996 new cases (all local) and two deaths reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, yesterday&#8217;s report recorded 150 628 cases, 129 095 recoveries and 4 720 deaths. Total cumulative for 1st dose is 3 907 860 whilst 2nd dose cumulative is 2 926 141 as at 1600hours yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DUiXsj7mMmn3dWVgEhDJLt\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet notes with concern that there has been a sharp increase in the total number of cases of reports per day during the last two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccination figures are among top seven in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zim GBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09 December 2021Lindie Dube A strange flu that has been affecting mostly children is now attacking indiscriminately. In the past weeks, the flu has been affecting all age groups. In&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}