No quarantine for travelers from Delta-affected countries: Cabinet

Government has said there is no longer any need to quarantine travellers from countries that were considered to be afflicted with the Delta variant before such as India as the variant constitute to about 98 percent of Covid 19 cases in the country.

Addressing during a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Mutsvangwa said there is no extra risk by not quarantining them as the variant is the same.

” When the Delta variant was identified, Zimbabwe imposed compulsory quarantine on travellers coming from countries where the variant was common.
But as the variant now accounts for 98 percent of Zimbabwean cases this is no longer needed,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.

From the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year up to yesterday, Zimbabwe has recorded 124 773 cases, 113 057 recoveries and 4 419 deaths.

The country presently has 7 297 active cases. As a result of the briefings on the latest figures and following representations from the affected sectors of the economy, Cabinet made a series of low-risk relaxations to the present lockdown measures that will allow some hard-hit sectors to resume at least partial operations.