Mozambique: Assembly Ratifies State of Emergency

Maputo — The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Tuesday night ratified the declaration of a state of emergency, announced by President Filipe Nyusi the previous day, in order to halt the spread of the respiratory disease Covid-19.

As amended by the Assembly, the declaration strengthens measures of obligatory quarantine. Anyone who has entered Mozambique in the last two weeks must go into quarantine. That includes all the Mozambicans who returned to the country from South Africa last Thursday, and there are estimated to be around 23,000 of them, scattered across the southern provinces.

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