News announced yesterday confirmed that schools across Zimbabwe are to re-open very soon. Reports coming through say that the following dates apply:
Monday 15/03/2021 – all exam classes to return – Grade 7 (Primary) and Form 4 (Secondary), plus Form 6 (A level)
Monday 22/03/2021 – all other classes to return
Below are some comments from contacts, some of the Heads of the 5 schools in Ward 14.
Mr Mahachi (Pakati Primary) – “We are not yet ready, but hope we will be ready by the date. We expect deliveries of some few PPEs from our district offices before opening, and the exam class teachers will be starting on the 10th to help with preparation work.”
Mrs Maenzanise (Mapanga Primary) – “Here we are really good. We are running around to put everything in order for schools are opening 15 March.”
Mr Mawedze (Chanetsa Secondary) – “We are starting to enrol Form 1 learners today, To start preparation to for opening schools, we will put all the measures which we can to protect our learners and teachers from covid19. We will improvise whatever we can. We are doing staff development meetings so that all teachers are well equiped with the covid information .This will allow us to protect the learners and ourselves from covid19 infection as a team.”
Below are some more pics from the re-opening in October 2020, from both Pakati schools & Mapanga Primary – we hope to see similar pictures very soon:
Other restrictions are also being eased as Zimbabwe starts to re-open its economy. Below are the changes which are to be introduced according to reports (unconfirmed at this stage):
1. Wearing of face masks, tempreture checks and washing of hands in all public areas remains mandatory
2. Curfew adjusted 10pm to 05:30 am
3. Supermarkets open up to 7pm
4. Industry to open with strict adherence to WHO standards and national guidelines..
5. Letters no longer required for movement
6. SMEs , food markets and informal markets can reopen on condition of strictly adhering to WHO standards
7. Intercity travel, can now resume, but operators must ensure disinfection, wearing of masks, sanitisation
I also received this update from a source on 25th Feb on the Covid situation in Zimbabwe:
“Vaccination has begun to front line workers with just over 4000 vaccinated. Yersterday there were 50 new cases and 4 deaths. Cumulatively we have around 35 000 cases around 2000 active cases, around 1400 deaths and around 32 000 recoveries.”
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