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Zimbabwe tightens lockdown measures from tomorrow, introduces dusk to dawn curfew

6–Our food markets will remain open and operational, and must observe set measures, rules and requirements meant to uphold public health. Suppliers to markets should be facilitated to reach the markets, including by our Security Forces;

7—Inter-city/town public transport and inessential transport to all rural areas remain banned.

8–All approved buses and vehicles for public transport should ensure and enforce public health standards, including the screening of passengers before boarding, and the disinfecting of all public vehicles after each round trip;

9—Public gatherings for social, religious or political purposes remain banned. Funeral gatherings remain curtailed, In line with public health requirements.

10–Desertion from places of quarantine by returnees and infected persons, resulting in the exposure of innocent lives to the virus will be considered a criminal act and invite very robust response from our law- and public health-enforcement arms.

11—Anyone who knowingly exposes, aids, abets, or infects innocent persons, whether by breaching conditions of isolation or by encouraging actions which undermine public health measures which Government has announced or undertaken, will be liable, and severely punished accordingly.

Mnangagwa said these measures will be on until further review or notice.

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