HARARE - A hundred students at a high school in northwestern Zimbabwe have tested positive for coronavirus, the government said Tuesday, raising fears of a new wave of the respiratory infection.
"A total of 100 pupils have tested positive for COVID-19 at... John Tallach boarding secondary school in Matabeleland North," government spokesperson Nick Mangwana said on Twitter. He did not specify when the tests were conducted, but said the school, which has more than 600 students, "has since been sealed off, with no-one allowed in or out."
Closed in March under measures to limit the spread of the virus, Zimbabwean schools have been gradually re-opening since September after new cases began to decline.
100 pupils catches the cold. Tissues supplied.
SA doesn't test pupils
They will all recover and be fine, stop this fear mongering
Blame Ginimbi