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Covid-19: Manica police detain 28 children for breaking state of emergency rules – Listen
3:12 CAT | 19 Jun 2020
File photo: Voa Portugues
Police in Manica have so far detained 28 children aged between 8 and 16 years old for breaking the Covid-19 state of emergency regulations.
The children were apprehended up on public roads while selling boiled eggs, peanuts, cakes and fruit, and at leisure facilities such as soccer fields, for failing to observe minimum coronavirus preventative measures, the corporation said.
“The police are concerned about children in the streets and at markets and other crowded places,” spokesman for the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) command in Manica Mateus Mindu said, announcing the operation.
The children are subjected to lectures on Covid-19 before being released to their families or sent to the district kindergarten
Many children work as street vendors to increase family income, or, abandoned by their families, work for others.
“We must not use our children to sell or buy what families need, because they could contract Covid-19,” Governor of Manica Francisca Tomás pleads.
Mindu stressed that “children must be protected against Coid-19, and the police will play their part in ensuring that the state of emergency regulations are fully implemented”.
By Thursday, Mozambique had a cumulative total of 662 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with four confirmed deaths and 175 people accounted fully recovered.
Listen to the audio below, in Portuguese.
Source: Voa Portugues
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