Informal sector should help fight COVID-19

WHEN the country woke up to news of a second and more complex COVID-19 variant wreaking havoc in neighbouring South Africa in December last year, Zimbabweans debated whether or not a hard lockdown was the way to go.

Days later, the luxury to debate was gone, leaving authorities with no option but to bring another tight lockdown as the deadly COVID-19 variant wormed its way around the country’s ever porous borders.

The pandemic has already claimed more than 1 400 lives nationally, crippling the country’s economy and is a major threat to the government’s objective of achieving a GDP growth of 7,4% this year.

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