By Own Correspondent| As President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivers his 40th Independence anniversary speech today, Zimbabweans will be eager to know if the current lockdown set to end tomorrow will be extended considering that the global pandemic has not slowed down nor under control to warrant returning the country to normalcy.

Mnangagwa is expected to deliver his Independence Day speech in the morning today.

Government has since upscaled Covid-19 tests as it seeks to meet its 30 000 tests target by 30 April and this could be an indicator that there could be an extension of the lockdown especially in light of remarks that this new targeted screening is expected to inform their future programming post lockdown.

Commenting on a Twitter discussion, one user had this to say;
Extension of the lockdown is obvious to most of us for very obvious reasons BUT, please advise the President that more stringent measures to limit human movements is critically required, especially here in Bulawayo’s low density areas. Otherwise we wont achieve anytn.

Others questioned the data extracted from the lockdown in terms of demographics;

Pandemic was serious before the lockdown started. This is a difficult disease to control and requires transparency and honesty to deal with it. Where are the hotspots? How many tests do you have left?