{"id":42771,"date":"2021-06-30T20:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=42771"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:30:17","slug":"retailers-welcome-stricter-lockdown-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/retailers-welcome-stricter-lockdown-measures","title":{"rendered":"Retailers Welcome Stricter Lockdown Measures"},"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>Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CRZ) president, Denford Mutashu, has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for tightening COVID-19 national lockdown measures.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mutashu implored business leaders and consumers to adhere to set protocols to ensure safety and prevent loss of life. He said:<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) applauds President Mnangagwa for announcing level 4 COVID-19 restrictions in order to curb a surge in new cases and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>CZR urges business and the general public to strictly adhere to the measures. Let us all remain vigilant and save lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa is on record saying it is better to save lives as the economy will be resuscitated in future.<\/p>\n<p>The country is in a state of war against the invisible enemy, the COVID-19 pandemic and it is our collective responsibility to stop the spread of this respiratory disease. Together we can defeat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa Tuesday announced a strict level four lockdown in which business hours have been reduced to between 8 am and 3.30 pm and the curfew hours extended to run from 6.30 pm to 6 am.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions, which took effect on Tuesday, will be in place for two weeks pending a review of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Mutashu recently issued a statement imploring Government to implement a national lockdown saying they had noticed a general surge of COVID-19 cases in most parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He was, however, berated by the Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe (TBCZ), which said a national lockdown would affect tourism recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CRZ) president, Denford Mutashu, has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for tightening COVID-19 national lockdown measures. In a statement, Mutashu implored business leaders and consumers to adhere to set protocols to ensure safety and prevent loss of life. He said: The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) applauds President Mnangagwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,4970,4819,5311,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-42771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-confederation-of-zimbabwe-retailers","15":"tag-czr","16":"tag-retailers","17":"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>Retailers Welcome Stricter Lockdown Measures - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CRZ) president, Denford Mutashu, has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for tig ...\" \/>\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\/retailers-welcome-stricter-lockdown-measures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Retailers Welcome Stricter Lockdown Measures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CRZ) president, Denford Mutashu, has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for tig ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/retailers-welcome-stricter-lockdown-measures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-30T18:01:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-30T16:30:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/06\/img-60dc9be5d8c5a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"940\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"456\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/retailers-welcome-stricter-lockdown-measures\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/retailers-welcome-stricter-lockdown-measures\",\"name\":\"Retailers Welcome Stricter Lockdown Measures - 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