Zimbabwe, like most countries in Africa, introduced a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus in March.
Nonetheless the virus continues to spread, albeit at a steady rate, but more people are becoming poorer faster with some starving due to the disruption of the economic activities caused by premature measures that were not informed by local context.
We had a good chance early March to close the borders and permit cargo only to enter the country, and that way there was no need to impose the premature nationwide lockdown as early as March 30.
The lack of strategic thought meant that economic activity in areas of less COVID-19 concern were crippled by premature nationwide lockdown.
At a time where the pandemic in worsening, it will be hard to effectively keep people indoors when they have endured hunger since March because of a premature nationwide lockdown.
