The number of cases recorded in the southern African country, whose health system has been tottering from years of neglect, rose by nearly a third over the past week to a total 1,713 cases."We can no longer be complacent and that requires urgent and decisive measures," Mnangagwa said during a national address.
"These urgent and necessary measures will entail curtailing the freedoms we have always enjoyed and grown accustomed to."
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