By Lorraine Muwuya
Zimbabwean returnees from SA are under high risk of succumbing to Covid 19 and other related ailments due to living conditions at Rainbow Hotel, Beitbridge border post.
It is confirmed by a reliable source, a returnee who has opted to be sleeping outside of the hotel for fear of the pandemic that people are not even complying to the rules and regulations put in place by WHO.
No social distancing, lots of people sharing limited sleeping space, no sanitizing stations or temperature recording. There are no flashing toilets and only two are being used by the rest. Men and women are sharing a room meant to be a kitchen as a sleeping and resting place, resulting in high possibility of abuse occurring as there is no privacy.
Amongst the returnees are vulnerable children and pregnant women who are very much at high risk yet no precarious measures being taken.
The returnees group is all now mixed with crime related persons this giving it a place and space of crime to be committed too
People are just dumped at the border without full information of what will happen next to them.
