THE Health and Child Care ministry has revealed that it has
no authority to defer the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair showcase, which
will be held in Bulawayo from April 21 to 25 to prevent the outbreak of
coronavirus since some of the exhibitors will be drawn from outside the
country.
The ministry indicated that only the Executive and
Legislature could authoritatively stop the exhibition on those grounds.
This was after Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni this week said
the city’s surveillance team had no capacity to host national and international
events such as the annual ZITF and Independence Day celebrations following the
global outbreak of coronavirus.
Addressing the media on Thursday, Health permanent
secretary Agnes Mahomva said as a ministry, they had no power to ban the trade
fair.
“I cannot give you a position at the moment, quite clearly
because the consultations are taking place and those who are directly involved
in that will finally come up with a decision, but we are happy that they are
consulting us as the Ministry of Health,” she said.
“We are the ones that have the technical expertise to be
able to say what is happening or what has happened. So we would like to remind
you that we are giving daily advice to the nation and we are ready to give
anyone and everybody specific advice from specific areas, whether it’s a
conference.”
She added: “As a ministry, we are going to give the
technical sound advice to help those that are making decisions. As we speak,
Zimbabwe has no case of confirmed COVID-19 and we are happy with what we are
doing. The little resources that we have are really helping us to do the best
that we can.” Newsday
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