Zim receives 527 returnees from South Africa

The country received 527 citizens returning from South Africa yesterday through the Beitbridge Border Post bringing the number of returnees from various countries to 3 134 since the country and other regional countries initiated national lockdowns to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Zimbabwe has put in place measures to ensure that returnees are immediately quarantined to mitigate the spread of the virus. To ease crowding at the entry points, the returnees are transported and sheltered at quarantine centres in their home provinces.

In a telephone interview yesterday, Deputy Minister of Labour, Public Service and Social Welfare, Lovemore Matuke said the returnees came by road while some flew in. The country started the national lockdown on 30 March.

“From the inception of lockdown we received up to 3 134 returnees into the country who have voluntarily come while some were deported. The returnees have been coming from South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique by road while some coming from other countries have been using their arrival destination as the airport,” said Matuke.

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