List of businesses that should close at 3pm under Zimbabwe’s latest lockdown measures

Zimbabwe announced a range of far-reaching measures which it says are meant to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

These as per Statutory Instrument 174 of 2020 as shared by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Nick Mangwana are:

Writing of exams
Fuel outlets
Restaurants
Hunting Safaris
Banks, bureaux de changes
Courts of law
Parliamentary Committees
Supermarkets
vegetable markets
Commercial and manufacturing enterprises

These new measures come with a dusk to dawn curfew announced President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

QUICK SIDEBAR: These strict times together with a curfew and a struggling state-controlled public transport system are a recipe for disaster. What we have a situation where anyone who works at a lot of those other places cannot access vegetable markets, supermarkets or restaurants when they knock off. That means unless they shop at lunch they are screwed. Then with all of those people needing to get home in a small window of three hours, Zupco which really has struggled in spectacular fashion to serve the whole population at the best of times will simply not be able to move the thousands who will all be required to leave the city at the same time. With the president’s statement emphasising enforcement and punishment over assistance, this will cause anxiety for many. And no social distancing will be observed which creates a new powder keg.