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Zimbabwe Extends COVID Lockdown, Despite Pleas From Workers

Columbus Mavhunga

   HARARE - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended the
   country's lockdown by two weeks to contain the coronavirus, while
   working people complain that they can't make a living. Mnangagwa's
   response to them - it's better for the economy to suffer than for the
   pandemic to kill people.

   In a televised nationwide address, Mnangagwa said more people in
   Zimbabwe were getting infected by the coronavirus, and he feared the
   situation would get out control, hence a further extension of the
   lockdown, which began March 30.

   "From the upward trajectory of infections it is evident that our