Once considered a 'city disease,' Zimbabwe's rural areas are being hit hard by Covid, and panic has set in
CNN
Pauline Chinyandura rushes to serve lunch in her makeshift canteen in Domboshava, a rural area around 25 miles northeast of Zimbabwe's capital Harare. The chatter around her is of a local health official who has died of Covid. Unheard of in these parts.
The chatter around the canteen is all about the death of a popular health official from Covid-19 in a nearby village. Panic has slowly set in this part of rural Zimbabwe as news of the death spreads in a place where people had previously considered themselves safe from a virus mostly concentrated in the country's bustling urban areas.At least 30 people were detained by New York Police Department officers, CNN witnessed, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president testified before a House committee about the school’s response to antisemitism.
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