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Covid-19 claims fourth Zimbabwean minister

Zimbabwe Covid

Undertakers lower the coffin of a Covid-19 victim in to a grave at Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare on January 14, 2021.

Photo credit: Jekesai Njikizana | AFP

Zimbabwe's Transport minister Joel Matiza has died of Covid-19, becoming the fourth minister to succumb to the respiratory disease since the outbreak began last year.

Matiza's death on Friday came days after the demise of Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo on Wednesday and of Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba a week  ago.