Mozambique: Government issues post state of emergency requirements – report

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Mozambique: Government issues post state of emergency requirements – report

3:41 CAT | 22 Jul 2020

Photo: Sala da Paz

The Mozambican government will, in the next few days, make public the requirements for an eventual reopening, of churches, restaurants and sporting activities at the end of the state of emergency.

Council of Ministers spokesman Filimão Suaze told reporters after yesterday’s cabinet meeting that guidelines would be sent to the directorates of each sector soon.

“What will happen in the next few days is that the ministries overseeing these areas will formally send to the managers of sports teams, restaurants [naely those where concerts and other live performances are held], and churches a set of requirements that must be met. This is so that we can prepare for the next phase, whatever that may be, in terms of the decision that will be taken by the President of the Republic. That is, we are preparing so that when this decision is made we can timeously say who is in a position to open and who is not,” Suaze explained.

The entities that oversee sports, religion and entertainment will tell the president whether they consider conditions for preventing the new coronavirus on the resumption of activities exist or not.

Their diagnoses will be decisive for “the decision that will be taken by the President of the Republic,” Suaze stressed.

By Tuesday (July 21), Mozambique had recorded a total of 1,536 positive cases and 11 deaths, The country has been in a state of emergency, extended three times, since April 1st, with constraints on gatherings, events banned and the mandatory use of masks.

Source: Folha de Maputo