Yesterday Zimbabwe recorded a shocking 95 new cases according to the Ministry of Health. It seems cases are on the rise again. COVID-19 generally takes about two weeks for symptoms to show so most of these cases would have been transimitted during the early days of us reopening and getting off from a strict lockdown. It seems whenever the government relaxes restrictions people just stop taking COVID-19 preventative measures seriously

t’s become all too clear to us now, COVID-19 is a pandemic of waves and lulls. Currently, we are going through a lull but if we keep getting relaxed we might go through a devastating third wave especially during the winter months when people tend to huddle and stay together. Countries like France are going through their third waves after devastating first and second waves.

Below is a table which shows the number of cases and deaths so far in April and it’s not a good trend.

Zimbabwe COVID-19 Cases April 2021

wdt_ID	Date	Number of Cases	Deaths
1	01/04/2021	14	0
2	02/04/2021	7	1
3	03/04/2021	8	0
4	04/04/2021	12	1
5	05/04/2021	11	0
6	06/04/2021	32	6
7	07/04/2021	18	0
8	08/04/2021	68	1
9	09/04/2021	95	3
10	10/04/2021	126	3
11	11/04/2021	15	0
12	12/04/2021	19	4
13	13/04/2021	23	1
14	14/04/2021	39	5
15	15/04/2021	53	2
16	16/04/2021	112	1
17	17/04/2021	165	1
18	18/04/2021	52	1
19	19/04/2021	108	0
20	20/04/2021	16	1
21	21/04/2021	105	1
22	22/04/2021	38	0
23	23/04/2021	27	1
24	24/04/2021	19	0
25	25/04/2021	22	1
26	26/04/2021	16	3
27	27/04/2021	62	5
28	28/04/2021	27	0
29	29/04/2021	44	2
30	30/04/2021	22	0
	Date	Number of Cases	Deaths