Top CIO Joseph Mugwanyo Dies Of Covid.

A Harare Provincial Intelligence Officer (PIO) in the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Counter intelligence branch Joseph Mugwanyo, has today died of Covid.

The top CIO was hurried to Parirenyatwa at midnight but is understood to have already passed on by the time of reaching the hospital.

“The patient arrived at the hospital around 0100 hours but was pronounced dead on arrival,” said one hospital official according to Zimmorning post.

Mugwanyo becomes one of the three top government officials who have succumbed to Covid this week after the death of Agriculture minister Perrence Shiri and Army Spokesman Overson Mugwisi

Investigations by the Zim Morning Post revealed that Mugwanyo tested positive about ten days ago.

“This has caused a furore at the counter intelligence offices because officers are now refusing to come to work.

“They want the whole building to be disinfected before they resume operating from there. The biggest challenge is that only two offices are said to be constantly disinfected,” the source said.