Over the last week Zimbabwe’s police have arrested 10,000 people for failing to wear face masks in the public and 16,000 others for flouting lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of corona virus, the authorities says.
According to the report of the website NewZimbvbawe.com says that the most of the offenders were ordered to pay an admission of guilt fine.
A strict lockdown came into the force on 5 january after cases doubled in the last month because of festive season gatherings and traffic from neighboring South Africa, which is experiencing a severe second wave of the virus.
The highest number of daily deaths from the coronavirus-38- were recorded on Wednesday. Currently more than 9,000 people have Covid-19. The surge in cases has threatened to overwhelm health services, and health care workers have been hit by a shortage of protective gear as they battle to cope with an increase in the number of patients.
Healthcare workers have been hit by the shortage of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) as the number of patients increases.
In total, there have been more than 34,000 Covid-19 cases and almost 600 deaths since the first case was detected in March.