Mozambique: Police detain 201 in a week for breaking Covid-19 emergency rules

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Mozambique: Police detain 201 in a week for breaking Covid-19 emergency rules

2:42 CAT | 26 Aug 2020

File photo: Lusa

Police in Mozambique detained 201 people last week for violating restrictions imposed under the state of emergency to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, the PRM force’s national command said in a statement on Wednesday.

The force also seized 55 motorbikes, 14 bicycles and four vehicles as part of operations to enforce the restrictions, it said.

“The PRM, in coordination with other state institutions, has undertaken several activities aimed at ensuring compliance with administrative measures implemented to prevent and contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of the implementation of the state of emergency, throughout the country,” the statement reads.

On the armed conflicts in the northern and central regions of the country, the PRM command reiterates that its forces are on permanent standby and that its officers are active in both operational theatres.

Reiterating its statement of last week, the PRM stresses in Wednesday’s communiqué that it has stepped up “ostensive patrolling to combat and capturem embers of the armed groups that carry out attacks in the centre and north.

Mozambique has so far confirmed 3,508 coronavirus cases and 21 deaths associated with Covid-19.

Worldside, the pandemic has so far caused at least 813,000 deaths and infected more than 23.6 million people in 196 countries and territories. The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: Lusa