The legal list of essential services was widened to allow
farmers to prepare for the winter cropping season and harvest during the 21-day
lockdown.
Through Statutory Instrument 86 of 2020, Government also
added funeral parlour operators and coffin manufacturers and sellers;
manufacturers and distributors of medical supplies relevant to combat COVID-19
and other medical emergencies; suppliers of agricultural inputs and stock feed;
supply and distribution of veterinary requirements for domesticated farm and non-farm
animals and cattle dipping.
For transport, Ethiopian Airways was gazetted as the sole
airline operating in Zimbabwe for the purposes of bringing in emergency
supplies and other travel services.
The airline is being used to bring in ventilators, face
masks, sanitisers and, other essential medical requirement.
Boats and other water-borne transport in areas where these
are the normal mode of transport to access essential goods and services are
permitted to operate.
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has been deemed essential and
can operate during the lockdown.
SI86 was gazetted to amend SI83 of 2020 which carried the
initial list of essential services permitted to operate in the lockdown.
These included producers and retailers of essential goods,
including food shops, pharmacies and informal food markets; power and water
supplies and public transport by Zupco and the Public Service Commission.
Herald
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