Zimbabwe relaxes Covid-19 restrictions
BUSINESS REPORTER
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended the working hours for business and allowed intercity transport to resume operations as he relaxed the Covid-19 restrictions on the back of a decline in daily cases of new infections and deaths.
He said the daily average for new cases and deaths had declined demonstrating that “careful implementation of public health measures is paying off”.
Businesses will now operate between 8 AM and 7 PM while decongesting offices to 50%. Before the review, businesses were operating between 8 AM and 330PM while offices were allowed to have 40% of their employees at the workplace.
Intercity transport is permitted with observance of public health measures, Mnangagwa said.
He said restaurants and bars within hotels and lodges will operate between 8 AM to 10 PM.
Bottle stores will be allowed to sell liquor to their customers for consumption off the premises between 10 AM and 4 PM.
Low-risk sporting activities have been allowed to operate from 8A M to 3 PM. He said medium to high-risk sporting activities have to obtain approval. A curfew will run from 10 PM to 530 AM.
The measures will be reviewed after two weeks.
Mnangagwa said the Covid-19 threat exists in view of the identification of a new variant by the World Health Organisation.
