For now, National Council of Sports (NCS) - according to general secretary Dr. Bernard Patrick Ogwel - has constituted an eight-man committee chaired by NCS board member Dr George Galiwango, which started this week to "formulate standard operating procedures that will determine whether sports will come back or not."

"We agreed that there is no textbook formula to follow in developing SOPs so we had to discuss in collaboration with the ministries of sport and health, Paralympic Committee and medical assistants.

Zimbabwe do not know when they will resume but there is a general acceptability that those involved in physical and fitness exercises like sports are at low risk of suffering fatalities when they contract Covid-19.

Their federations, however, will only hold events in consultation with their sports ministry and their sports disciplines have been categorised as either low or high risk.

High risk groups like the elderly are also not allowed to attend sports events while athletes have to be dropped and picked up at a park before and after training.