{"id":3082,"date":"2020-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:02:14","slug":"zororo-makamba-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"Zororo Makamba, journalist"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Zororo_Makamba.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Zororo Makamba \u2011 a Zimbabwean journalist and the son of Irene and James Makamba &ndash; died on 23 March 2020 due to COVID\u201119.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Makamba posted commentary on Zimbabwean politics and society online under the heading &quot;State of the Nation&quot;, and hosted current affairs programs on ZiFM Stereo and M-Net television affiliate Zambezi Magic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He had myasthenia gravis, a neuroskeletomuscular autoimmune disease, and underwent surgery to remove a thymoma gland tumour in November 2019. He was diagnosed on 21 March 2020 with COVID-19, twelve days after returning from New York City and five days after going to a doctor with a cough and fever. He died in Harare two days later, the first death in the country due to the disease.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zororo Makamba \u2011 a Zimbabwean journalist and the son of Irene and James Makamba &ndash; died on 23 March 2020 due to COVID\u201119. &nbsp; Makamba posted commentary on Zimbabwean politics and society online under the heading &quot;State of the Nation&quot;, and hosted current affairs programs on ZiFM Stereo and M-Net television affiliate Zambezi Magic. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[46,7019],"tags":[847,6067,6230,6066],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Zororo_Makamba.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10474,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10474","url_meta":{"origin":3082,"position":0},"title":"Parthasarathy, journalist","date":"May 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Parthasarathy, a video journalist working for a Telugu TV channel, died from Covid-19 in Tirupati, a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, on July 12, 2020. 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