Key Lockdown Extension Highlights
16 May 2020
While delivering today’s COVID-19 lockdown address President Mnangagwa highlighted the following:
- Lockdown extended indefinitely
- Social distancing to continue
- Wearing of face masks, hand washing and the use of sanitizers remains mandatory.
- Public and Private places will continue to be disinfected regularly.
- The government will increase all provinces’ testing capacities.
- Private sector testing and isolation centres are encouraged and will be facilitated in testing suspected cases.
- Rertunees still subjected to 21 day mandatory quarantine
- Businesses planning to reopen must follow laid down measures in regards sanitization, social distancing, temperature checks and monitoring
- Public exam classes and final year students must be allowed to proceed within the prevention measures .
- Phased reopening of schools to be put in place
- Business operating times adjusted, business can opne from 8 AM to 4:30PM
- Informal sector reopening consultations still ongoing
- Social gatherings, weddings, churches parties etc still prohibited.
- Bars and gyms to remain closed. Restaurants allowed to open for take aways
- Inter city travel still banned for both air and road transport except for essential cargo.
- Zupco to remain the only public transport allowed on the road
- All truck drivers entering the country to be tested.