Date | Statutory instrument | Contents |
23 March 2020 | SI 76 of 2020 | Declaration of a state of disaster. |
23 March 2020 | SI 77 of 2020 | Declaration of COVID-19 as formidable epidemic disease (prohibition of gatherings, compulsory testing). |
28 March 2020 | SI 82 of 2020 | The enforcement officers were given broad powers encompassing crowd dispersal, ordering of mandatory testing, detention, medical examination, sequestration or disinfection of baggage and mandatory treatment or prophylaxis against COVID-19. Soldiers designated enforcement officer under the guidance of any enforcement officer. |
28 March 2020 | SI 83 of 2020 | 21-day national lockdown (every individual is confined to his or her home, no gathering of more than two individuals, schools closed, intercity travel banned, airports and aerodromes closed, communication of falsehoods an offence). |
23 April 2020 | SI 94 of 2020 | Relaxation of lockdown measures exempting employees in manufacturing, mining, and buyers and sellers of tobacco and employees of tobacco auction floors. |
29 April 2020 | SI 96 of 2020 | Presidential temporary powers. Restraint on eviction, postdeferral payment of rental arrears, postdeferral payment of mortgage arrears. |
2 May 2020 | SI 99 of 2020 | Mandatory wearing of mask in public, mandatory testing before resuming work, observing the social distancing rule, hand sanitising, restriction in business operating hours. |
22 July 2020 | SI 174 of 2020 | Curfew beginning at 18:00 hours every day and ending at 06:00 hours on the following day. |
30 September 2020 | SI 225A of 2020 | Holding of any by-election suspended. |
26 May 2021 | SI 126 of 2021 | Kwekwe district subject to special restrictions, curfew from 19:00 to 06:00 hours. |
31 May 2021 | SI 134A of 2021 | Special testing requirements for people coming from or through India due to an emerging lethal variant. |
18 June 2021 | SI 183 of 2021 | Special lockdowns for Hurungwe and Kariba. |
26 June 2021 | SI 187 of 2021 | Tightening of travel requirements due to prevalence in some countries of highly infectious and lethal variants of the COVID-19 disease, namely the Alpha and Delta. |
17 September 2021 | SI 234 of 2021 | No later than 15 October 2021—(a) every member of the public service shall be fully vaccinated, and any member—(i) not so vaccinated shall be barred from the workplace after 15 October 2021. |
SI 241 of 2021 | Mandatory vaccination to access public spaces. | |
1 December 2021 | SI 267 of 2021 | Tightening of travel restriction due to emergence of an additional variant ‘Omicron’. |
4 January 2011 | SI 1 of 2022 | General school calendar for in-person schooling postponed. |
Source: Veritas (https://www.veritaszim.net/taxonomy/term/973).
The SIs highlighted in bold have been considered to have a considerable effect on biopower.
SI, statutory instrument.