Cargo carriers to / from Mozambique cannot leave the cabin, otherwise they must comply with quarantine

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Cargo carriers to / from Mozambique cannot leave the cabin, otherwise they must comply with quarantine

1:50 CAT | 06 Apr 2020

Photo: A Verdade / Adérito Caldeira

During the State of Emergency in Mozambique, international road hauliers ferrying food, medicines, biosafety material, diagnostic tests and other essential products continue to operate.

But if they disembark from their vehicles, in order to avoid the spread of Covid-19, they will have to comply with the 14-day quarantine requirements.

Cláudio Zunguze, National Director of Transport and Security at the Ministry of Transport and Communications, clarified the specific requirements applying to carriers on routes to and from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

“The road freight transport operation prevails. In addition to an authorisation permit that allows operators to carry out their activity, it is necessary to have a credential. An invoice and/or a receipt from the supplier is required, stating that there is a cargo to bring from a foreign territory to Mozambique. This measure is in order to avoid having transporters crossing borders to go and prospect for goods, which would expose them (to Covid-19) ”, Cláudio Zunguze explained at a press conference on Saturday ( March 4).

Zunguze added that “the crew of cargo vehicles is being requested to have only one driver, who must not come into a situation of exposure – cannot get out of his cabin. If the driver disembarks in territory outside Mozambique, he will have to comply with the 14-day quarantine requirement” on his return.

The same applies to any driver, Zunguze pointed out, so a driver stepping out of his cabin risks being quarantined twice, first in the country he entered and then again in the country he returns to.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade