{"id":39718,"date":"2021-05-04T19:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=39718"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:40:30","slug":"the-law-must-take-its-course-opc-as-minister-flouts-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/the-law-must-take-its-course-opc-as-minister-flouts-regulations","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Law Must Take It\u2019s Course\u201d \u2013 OPC As Minister Flouts Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Chief Coordinator of COVID-19 Response in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said the law must take its course amid reports that a minister flouted COVID-19 regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that the minister of Industry and Commerce, Dr Sekai Nzenza, last week met a delegation from India but they did not practise social distancing neither were they wearing face masks.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahomva, however, refused to comment on Minister Nzenza\u2019s case she said:<\/p>\n<p>People have always been breaking the law even before COVID-19. People steal cattle, people steal cars, people are breaking the law all over and if anyone breaks the law, the law must take its course. Various laws are broken and people just have to comply so I can\u2019t comment on a specific issue of someone breaking it. The law should take its course.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting happens amid reports that India is experiencing an unprecedented coronavirus spread and transmission rate that has catapulted the daily new cases to about 300 000 (official figure) or 3 million (medical experts).<\/p>\n<p>Official reports say India recorded 386 452 news cases on Friday last week, while deaths from COVID-19 jumped by 3 498.<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts believe actual COVID-19 numbers in the world\u2019s second densely populated nation are likely five to 10 times greater than the official tally.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the sheer magnitude of infections in India in a short period of time suggests an \u2018escape variant\u2019 may be overwhelming any prior immunity from natural infections in those populations.<\/p>\n<p>The reports that the minister flouted COVID-19 regulations are worrying and those actions put the nation at risk as there is a possibility that the \u2018escape variant\u2019 from India could have been imported.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s public health system is collapsed, therefore, has limited capacity to deal with such variants.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: Pindula News; Nehanda Radio<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Chief Coordinator of COVID-19 Response in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said the law must take its course amid reports that a minister flouted COVID-19 regulations. Reports suggest that the minister of Industry and Commerce, Dr Sekai Nzenza, last week met a delegation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1841,3989,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-39718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-agnes-mahomva","14":"tag-sekai-nzenza","15":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cThe Law Must Take It\u2019s Course\u201d \u2013 OPC As Minister Flouts Regulations - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chief Coordinator of COVID-19 Response in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/the-law-must-take-its-course-opc-as-minister-flouts-regulations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cThe Law Must Take It\u2019s Course\u201d \u2013 OPC As Minister Flouts Regulations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chief Coordinator of COVID-19 Response in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/the-law-must-take-its-course-opc-as-minister-flouts-regulations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-04T17:27:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-04T16:40:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-609178e0daee9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/the-law-must-take-its-course-opc-as-minister-flouts-regulations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/the-law-must-take-its-course-opc-as-minister-flouts-regulations\",\"name\":\"\u201cThe Law Must Take It\u2019s Course\u201d \u2013 OPC As Minister Flouts Regulations - 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