By midday on Tuesday, however, people in Zimbabwe’s two major cities, Harare and Bulawayo, were going about their business as usual. Long queues for mealie meal and fuel and at banks were still there, while supermarkets and restaurants, like other small businesses, remained open. The traffic was relatively normal.
“People think we don’t take Covid-19 seriously, that’s why we are still in the streets. What they ignore is that we have two options: die of Covid-19 or face starvation. So we would rather take our chances with the disease while we sanitise, because not all of us have money to stay home for months,” he said.
Meanwhile, Makamba family spokesperson Tawanda Makamba in an interview with the Daily News accused the government of lies and extortion, being ill-prepared for Covid-19 and disregarding life.
That's madness, we break those rules queueing for mealie meal, buses, birth certificates and banks... These decrees were not meant for Zimbabwe....
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