Mozambique: Parliament to resume plenary sessions next week after 3-week break

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Mozambique: Parliament to resume plenary sessions next week after 3-week break

1:30 CAT | 05 May 2020

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Mozambique’s parliament is to resume plenary sessions next week, after having interrupted work on 16 April due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a parliamentary official told Lusa on Tuesday.

The date and agenda for next week’s session is to be set by Wednesday by parliament’s standing committee.

The official said that among agenda items for the coming sessions is the debate and vote on the General State Account (CGE).

Before work was suspended, deputies had been holding meetings in a room at the Joaquim Chissano Conference Centre rather than in the parliament building, to allow the necessary distance between members.

On 30 April parliament met exceptionally to ratify the decree approving the extension of the state of emergency in the country for a further 30 days (to the end of May) that had been declared at the beginning of the month due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mozambique has so far had 80 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus that causes Covid-19, of which 72 were locally transmitted and the rest imported.

There is no record so far of any deaths, and 19 people are reported by the authorities to ahve recovered.

Worldwide the pandemic has so far claimed over 250,000 lives and infected over 3.5 million people in 195 countries and territories.

Source: Lusa