HARARE, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Zimbabwe government has directed that vegetable markets in the country should open for six days with mandatory closure on the seventh day to allow for disinfection in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The move came as locally transmitted COVID-19 cases have spiked in the country, with Harare's Mbare vegetable market now designated as one of the coronavirus hot spots, after nine percent of people tested at the market this week tested positive.
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