{"id":195648,"date":"2025-04-08T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-city-of-harare-to-fumigate-over-5-000-housing-units-as-mbare-battles-bed-bug-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:55:52","slug":"zimbabwe-city-of-harare-to-fumigate-over-5-000-housing-units-as-mbare-battles-bed-bug-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-city-of-harare-to-fumigate-over-5-000-housing-units-as-mbare-battles-bed-bug-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: City of Harare to Fumigate Over 5 000 Housing Units As Mbare Battles Bed Bug Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The City of Harare (CoH) has identified a total number of 5 490 housing units to be fumigated in Mbare, where there is a bed bug (<em>tsikidzi)<\/em> outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In an interview with the Director of Health at CoH, Prosper Chonzi, said the council will start with the most affected flats: Matererini, Matapi, and Majubeki and then proceed to other areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;It&#8217;s almost like it&#8217;s everywhere where there are bed bugs, but we have Matererini, parts of Matapi and Majubeki and all in all we did a mapping and there are 5&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504080030.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Harare (CoH) has identified a total number of 5 490 housing units to be fumigated in Mbare, where there is a bed bug (tsikidzi) outbreak. In an interview with the Director of Health at CoH, Prosper Chonzi, said the council will start with the most affected flats: Matererini, Matapi, and Majubeki and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10981,18149,51077,6603,51076,500,8522,27609,257,6582,254,20330,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battles","tag-bed","tag-bug","tag-city","tag-fumigate","tag-harare","tag-housing","tag-mbare","tag-news","tag-outbreak","tag-south-africa-today","tag-units","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}