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The Covid-19 district taskforce has ordered closure of N Richards Wholesale shop at Jerera Growth Point after three workers tested positive for the deadly virus.

The taskforce has also since started decongesting the growth point, with police accompanied by Environmental Health Officers, deployed there beginning today to make sure movement of people is limited.

All N Richard’s staff at Jerera have been put under mandatory quarantine for 10 days, while the three who tested positive are self-isolating at home.

Zaka District Medical Officer Dr Mutero Mupereki today said the closed N Richards shop will only reopen after fumigation of the building and end of the 10-day quarantine.

“We have deployed teams of Environmental Health Officers and police to Jerera as part of efforts to decongestant the growth point beginning today and as I speak now the N Richards shop is closed and fumigation of the building has not yet started,” said Dr Mupereki.

Jerera is the commercial capital of Zaka and the outbreak of Covid-19 at the business centre comes as cases of the virus have been spiking in Masvingo province.