The fight against the global pandemic Covid-19 may prove to be extra difficult for officials in Zimbabwe as allegations of the use of unqualified personnel without personal protective equipment are being used by some companies as well as allegations that labs are issuing fake results emerge. A Chinese mining company, Afrochine Smelting has been embroiled in a COVID-19 testing scandal after it allegedly assigned unqualified personnel to carry out tests for the respiratory virus on its 600 workers. According to Statutory Instrument 102 of 2020, which enforced the original COVID-19 lockdown period, employers must use the rapid results diagnostic test or any other test approved by the Minister of Health and Child Care but the process should be coordinated by the Health ministry. Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (ZACC) has warned laboratory centres which are issuing fake Covid-19 certificates that the net is closing in on them.