The government has called on citizens to adapt their lifestyles and learn to live safely to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
In a media briefing after the ad-hoc Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on COVID-19 meeting on Monday, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Monica Mutsvangwa said:
Experts have informed us that those who will win this war are those who adapt to the new normal which entails adopting the protective and preventative measures that curb the spread and transmission of Covid-19. This is a new normal. Let us all accept it and adapt our lifestyles to it.
Mutsvangwa said even though the country has been in lockdown for about five months, the worst is not yet over and people should not flout movement restrictions and have to continue to observe regulations that have been announced by the government. She said:
Let us dig in into our legendary resilience and take heart in that what we are being asked to do will save us, our families and communities. Let us not violate the movement restrictions that are in place to protect us and others as well as the wearing of masks in public places.
Mutsvangwa said the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, has taken over as the National Taskforce chair from Vice President Kembo Mohadi.
Muchinguri-Kashiri will be deputised by the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development, Amon Murwira.
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Imitating the U.S. and the UKs approach to the virus is dumb. We live jowl to jowl in high density areas and we travel in packed buses. The only system that will work is something like the Swedish system where people are asked to be responsible and where herd immunity is allowed to kick in. What we are doing now will damage us for decades.