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Zimbabwe extends coronavirus lockdown again

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Minsk, Belarus, on January 17, 2019. [Reuters]

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended a nationwide lockdown to fight the new coronavirus by two more weeks and announced a $720 million stimulus package for distressed companies, most which will be allowed to reopen on Monday.

The southern African nation first announced a three-week lockdown in March and then extended that, prior to the latest extension. The lockdown has shuttered an economy struggling with acute shortages of foreign currency, food, electricity and medicines.

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