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Zimbabwe Tightens Security at Isolation Centers After 118 Escape
- Government puts citizens who return to country in quarantine
- Most new infections are returnees as case count rises to 132
A police water cannon is used to spray a Hydroperoxide compound to disinfect a market in Nkulumane township, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on April 16.
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Zimbabwe will step up security at its coronavirus isolation centers after more than 100 people who had been put in quarantine ran away, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said.
The escapees were citizens who had recently returned from abroad, mainly from South Africa and Botswana. The state-controlled Herald newspaper earlier this week quoted the police as saying that 118 people had escaped from various isolation centers.