By Anna Chibamu
MDC vice president and Harare East MP Tendai Biti has condemned government for poor disaster preparedness.
He was responding to Health Minister Obadiah Moyo’s ministerial statement on the deadly coronavirus in Parliament Thursday.
Biti said the country was lucky so far not to have recorded any case of the COVID-19 disease considering that authorities’ disaster preparedness systems did not exist.
Biti Speaks on Coronavirus
Posted by New Zimbabwe.com on Friday, February 21, 2020
Minister Moyo announced a raft of measures to be undertaken if the virus affects the country.
He assured the nation that not a single case of the virus has been recorded so far where more than 2009 people have succumbed to the COVID-19 disease worldwide.