Church Services In Zimbabwe Not Banned
Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services Minister, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa said churches are not banned in the new lockdown regulations announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
She was speaking in Chinhoyi yesterday during an inter-ministerial taskforce on Covid-19.
Mutsvangwa said Government has not banned people from attending churches and they are allowed to congregate for as long as they follow the Covid-19 specified regulations.
The taskforce was attended by provincial Government heads, Members of Parliament, and church leaders.
Mutsvangwa said churches are not banned but congregants should not exceed fifty people.
She said:
The recent lockdown restrictions issued by the President seek to arrest the spread of the virus through a raft of measures among them, restricting gatherings. Only gatherings that exceed 50 have remained banned and the Government has not reviewed the figure up or down. People are allowed to congregate for as long as they observe the stipulated figure, sanitising, social distancing, temperature checking and members wearing masks.
A number of people were confused on whether church services were suspended following a directive issued by the President.
Mutsvangwa went on to explain why President Emmerson Mnangagwa had issued the new lockdown regulations which saw the introduction of a 6PM to 6AM curfew.
Mutsvangwa said:
The disease has ravaged people across the world and there is nothing that the Government has done wrong in addressing the challenge and the interventions put in place to contain the disease. Zimbabwe has had low figures for quite a number of months, but because the President couldn’t close the border on returning residents, we continued to receive returnees from many countries who contributed to the spike of the disease. Nonetheless, Government introduced quarantine and isolation centres for screening purposes to curb the spread of the virus.
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