Mozambique: President lifts night curfews for Xmas, New Year’s Eve celebrations – Watch

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Mozambique: President lifts night curfews for Xmas, New Year’s Eve celebrations – Watch

6:41 CAT | 20 Dec 2021

Screen grab: President Filipe Nyusi on Facebook

President Filipe Nyusi on Monday suspended curfews for the Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations, while maintaining most of the restrictions related to the prevention of Covid-19 in the country.

“Exceptionally, the curfew schedule is suspended on the night of 24-25 and the night of 31 December to 1 January, to allow families to celebrate these moments,” the Mozambican head of state said during an address to the nation.

The curfew in force in the country’s main cities runs from 00:00 to 04:00 (22:00 to 02:00 in Lisbon).

Filipe Nyusi maintained almost all the measures, having banned visits to prisoners due to the “exponential increase” of cases in prisons, as well as reduced the number of visitors to patients in hospitals from two to one per day.

The measures will be in force for another 30 days from Tuesday until January 19, 2022.

“Let it be clear that the Government’s intention is not to punish people, but to draw attention and [appeal] to awareness,” he said, warning of the “gigantic and worrying evolution” of the weekly positivity rate in the country, which has risen from 0.4% to 24.5% in the last four weeks.

“The transmission of the pandemic is higher in the southern part of the country,” Nyusi said, noting that surveillance would be intensified and, if the red line is crossed, “more drastic measures will be taken”.

According to the head of state, 7.8 million people have been immunised with at least one dose of the vaccine against the new coronavirus in the country, of which 5.4 percent are fully vaccinated.

Mozambique has a total of 1,952 deaths and 160,457 cases, of which 150,484 have recovered.

Source: Lusa