{"id":10250,"date":"2020-07-14T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:02:42","slug":"arrests-tests-and-lockdown-in-bulawayo-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/arrests-tests-and-lockdown-in-bulawayo-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests, tests and lockdown in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2466\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darajapress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40.png?fit=670%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40.png 2466w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40-150x51.png 150w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40-1024x346.png 1024w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40-768x260.png 768w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40-1536x519.png 1536w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-13-10.03.40-2048x693.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2466px) 100vw, 2466px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arrests, tests and lockdown in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vR4-vrAy3ZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indefinite lockdown started on Level 2 on 4 May 2020, in a context in which Zimbabwe has not reached the WHO standards for lifting of lockdown. \u2022 Regionally, there are increasing concerns about whether lockdown infringes citizens\u2019 rights including the right to earn a living. \u2022 Zimbabwe initially locked down in good time to contain the virus, but may lose the advantage if health facilities are not quickly upgraded, and ways found to stem virus transmission without driving citizens into worse poverty and hunger. \u2022 By 27 May, there had been more arrests than tests: this points to a greater concentration on punishment than on education of citizens \u2013 and also to the fact that vast numbers of citizens remain prepared to risk arrest and\/or infection, as a lesser evil than starvation. It is of great concern that by 4 June, just as the virus was taking hold nationally, with numbers trebling between 25 and 28 May, there was NOT ONE dedicated government institution offering effective isolation and ICU care for critically ill Covid 19 in Bulawayo \u2013 a city that is the referral point for five provinces \u2013 the three Matabeleland provinces, Masvingoand Midlands. More than two months into lockdown, this is hard to understand. \u2022 There have been several instances of state abuses of civilians under lockdown. \u2022 Neither Thorngrove nor Ekusileni are ready for Covid 19 patients, and CEO of Mpilo has expressed concern about having cases there because of the possibility of cross infection. \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indefinite lockdown started on Level 2 on 4 May 2020, in a context in which Zimbabwe has not reached the WHO standards for lifting of lockdown. \u2022 Regionally, there are increasing concerns about whether lockdown infringes citizens\u2019 rights including the right to earn a living. \u2022 Zimbabwe initially locked down in good time to contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"acf":[],"wbAuthor":{"name":"Daraja Press","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/author\/user001\/"},"wbCategories":{"space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/category\/podcasts\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PODCASTS<\/a>","coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/category\/podcasts\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PODCASTS<\/a>"},"wbComment":0,"wbReadTime":{"min":1,"sec":15},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}