FACTSHEET: Zimbabwe COVID-19 isolation and quarantine facilities - ZimFact
Ngoni Mhuruyengwe
May 6, 2020
The recently refurbished Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare is the capital’s main COVID-19 isolation and treatment centre.
Is there a difference between an isolation centre and a quarantine centre?
Yes there is.
An isolation centre hosts a person with the contagious disease while a quarantine centre hosts and restricts the movement of people who were possibly exposed to the pandemic  to see if they become sick.
The Zimbabwe government is establishing COVID-19 isolation centres around the country’s 10 provinces as part of the battle against the global pandemic.
Critics say the response has been slow and some of the facilities are ill-equipped.
On its part, the government team leading Zimbabwe’s fight against COVID-19 dismisses the allegations of inertia and says no country in the world was prepared for this crisis and its scale has badly stretched state resources.
The following are the Covid-19 isolation centres:
TOTAL Isolation Centres – 64
Source: MOHCC
COVID-19 Quarantine Centres
Zimbabwe has established quarantine centres for people coming into the country to be cleared of Covid-19.
The mandatory quarantine period is 21 days, with testing being conducted on the first, eighth and 21st days, according to the government’s latest testing plan for returning residents and international travellers.
Below is a list of quarantine centres in Zimbabwe by province
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