Addressing
the post cabinet briefing yesterday, Minister of Information, Publicity and
Broadcasting Monica Mutsvangwa said there is no longer need to quarantine those
travelers.
"Considering
that 98% of COVID-19 cases in Zimbabwe are of the Delta variant, there is no
longer need to quarantine travelers from countries afflicted with the variant,
such as India," she said.
Meanwhile,
World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed that a new Covid-19 variant that was
first detected in South Africa in May does not appear to be spreading adding
that it is monitoring the variant as the virus evolves.
But
Zimbabwean health expert Prof Solwayo Ngwenya has warned against complacency.
Ngwenya
said the risk to Zimbabwe cannot be dismissed.
While the
majority of South Africa's coronavirus cases are currently caused by the Delta
variant - first detected in India - C.1.2 caught scientists' attention because
its mutation was almost twice as fast as observed in other global variants.
Its
frequency remains relatively low, however, and it has so far been detected in
less than 3 percent of genomes sequenced since it was first picked up in May.
This is
despite the fact that it has increased from 0.2 percent to 2 percent last
month.
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