Zimbabwe to bury senior officials who died from Covid-19

Funerals are due in Zimbabwe for three senior leaders of the ruling Zanu-PF party who died with Covid-19 last week.

The three, including Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, will be buried at the National Shrine, known as Heroes’ Acre, near the capital Harare.

More than 28,000 Zimbabweans have been infected with the coronavirus since the start of the epidemic and more than 800 have died.

Correspondents say the virus has overwhelmed Zimbabwe’s chronically underfunded health system.

Due to Covid restrictions, the country’s political elites are no longer able to travel abroad for treatment as former President Robert Mugabe often did.