COVID-19 has paralysed Zim: Parliament

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday said the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic had paralysed the economy and increased the country’s domestic and international debt burden.

“The pandemic paralysed the economic sector, culminating in the distension of the informal sector, an increased domestic and international debt burden on the country. Similarly, the social sector was not spared by the vagaries of the pandemic,” Mudenda told a 2022 pre-budget briefing seminar in Harare.

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