While the government, through advice from the Tripartite Negotiating Forum(TNF) declared the pandemic a national disaster and instituted measures that included:
i. Banning of all non-essential travel (excluding returning residents) and traffic, both inbound and outbound, except for movement of cargo;
ii. Ban on entertainment and recreational activities such as nightclubs, bars, beerhalls, movie houses, swimming pools, gymnasium and sporting activities;
iii. ban public gathering that exceed 50 people in the following: religious fellowships, weddings, conferences, workshops and funerals; and,
iv. Restricted hospital visits which have been reduced to one visit per day involving relative per patient and
v. A total lockdown for 21 days starting Monday, 30 March 2020.
vi. Expedition of COVID-19 testing to be decentralized to provincial centres;
and whilst the ZCTU had already put in place migratory measures against exposure to COVID-19 infections namely allowing its workers to work from home, as well as scaling down on activities that have the potential of exposing staff and its members to the virus such as cancellation of its annual event, the ZCTU calls for:
