COVID-19 cases this week rose sharply and authorities attributed this to Zimbabweans returning from other countries housed at quarantine centres.
This week, the government announced that it had licensed the Rainbow Towers, Umswindale Lodge, Bronte Hotel, Kadoma Hotel, Chevron Hotel (Masvingo), Khumalo Hotel (Bulawayo), among others as private quarantine centres, particularly targeting self-sponsoring returnees and those with free funds.
We are told that such facilities (quarantine centres) should have accommodation for State security personnel on deployment and should not carry out any other business that is not COVID-19-related.
How is the government going to monitor that inmates stay at the private quarantine centres for the mandatory 21 days?
Moreso, I am not convinced that the licensing of private quarantine centres had anything to do with curtailing the spread of the coronavirus.
