Will Masisi Lock Us down?

Speculation has been rife on social media that Masisi’s scheduled address woul be mainly to announce that the country would be going on a lockdown that would see only essential service providers doing their work.

According to circulating information, a lockdown is expected to be effected by Wednesday until early August as the country battles a wave of an increase in COVID- 19 cases amid frustration around the slow vaccine rollout. Thus far the country has fully vaccinated just under 110,000 people. Over 75,000 people have tested positive to the virus while just over 1,200 succumbed to the pandemic-related complications. Social commentators led the topic on social media with many people expressing frustration should the lockdown news be true. “I have it on good authority, that a heavy/hard lockdown is impending.