Welcome to NewsDay’s coverage of today’s events. Zimbabwe is going through its worst economic crisis in a decade and opposition and civic groups have called for protests against corruption by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. Yesterday, security forces and anti-riot police cleared people off streets of the capital Harare and in major cities and towns across the country. The also forced shops to close. Our reporters around the country provide up to the minute updates. • Cities around the country are deserted. Police and soldiers are turning away people trying to go to work. In Bulawayo, the central business district is deserted, with most shops and banks closed. Zupco buses have no passengers to carry. • Blessed Mhlanga reports that police and soldiers have mounted roadblocks along the major highways into Harare. No cars are being allowed into Harare’s CBD. Security forces have mounted a major road block at Mbudzi roundabout. Shops in the High density are open although there is heavy police presence. • Our reporter in Masvingo Tatenda Chitagu reports that the situation is tense, the CBD is deserted but major shops open. In the high density suburbs, shops are open and a few people are outdoors. • Moses Mugunyeki reports that soldiers have been deployed at most shopping centres in Chitungwiza's Zengeza and St Mary's suburbs. The situation is tense around Huruyadzo Shopping Centre, which is a stone’s throw from the home of opposition MDC Alliance’s vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala. Most people and vendors have stayed indoors. • In Chivhu, Miriam Mangwaya reports that most small retail shops are closed, with heavy police presence on every street and at entrances of every opened retail shops. • Vanessa Gonye reports heavy police and military presence in Domboshava and Hatcliffe, with members of the army chasing people from Mungate Shopping Centre. There are reports of beatings earlier for those attempting to go to the shops. • Kenneth Nyangani reports from Mutare that movement now in the high-density suburbs is restricted as armed police and soldiers are roaming the streets. Fearful residents have been told to stay indoors. Police have set up roadblocks at shopping centres in high density suburbs. • In Chiredzi, Garikai Mafirakureva reports that It's business as usual, without any incidents except for eight people who were arrested at a birthday party last night around 11pm. In the CBD, most shops are closed. • Brenna Matendere filed this report: In Gweru, the central business district is deserted. Fast foods outlets, Chicken Inn & Bakers Inn as well OK and Pick n Pay as supermarkets have been ordered to close by police early in the morning. They reopened after intelligence officials intervened. In Mkoba, armed police and army have sealed both ends of a dusty road in Mkoba 13 which leads the house of MDC Alliance Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya. At Mkoba 12 turn-off near Mkoba Teachers College there were some soldiers an army truck who were singing liberation songs loudly since morning to around 9:30 w