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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The government through the Ministry of Health has been very unfair and playing populist politics by allowing markets and street vendors in to carry on business as usual but closing hospitality businesses under the guise of covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n

These businesses have literally been closed since last year yet it doesn\u2019t require any science or intelligence to see that hospitality businesses are more controlled in terms of compliance with health regulations than markets or \u201cinspection of development projects\u201d and political campaigns. The Ministry of Health should immediately lift this unreasonable suspension or closure of hospitality business as there is no justification.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Small business owner<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. The government through the Ministry of Health has been very unfair and playing populist politics by allowing markets and street vendors in to carry on business as usual but closing hospitality businesses under the guise of covid-19 restrictions. These businesses have literally been closed since last year yet it doesn\u2019t require any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,25,8,16],"tags":[234,235,1473,1474,233],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-covid-19-restrictions","tag-small-business-owner","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nHospitality businesses call on Ministry of Health to lift restrictions as Covid cases decline - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government through the Ministry of Health has been very unfair and playing populist politics by allowing markets and ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hospitality businesses call on Ministry of Health to lift restrictions as Covid cases decline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government through the Ministry of Health has been very unfair and playing populist politics by allowing markets and ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-03T20:36:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/08\/img-6109a77db9936.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"473\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Hospitality businesses call on Ministry of Health to lift restrictions as Covid cases decline\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-03T20:36:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline\"},\"wordCount\":122,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/08\/img-6109a77db9936.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"covid-19 restrictions\",\"Small business owner\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/hospitality-businesses-call-on-ministry-of-health-to-lift-restrictions-as-covid-cases-decline\",\"name\":\"Hospitality businesses call on Ministry of Health to lift restrictions as Covid cases decline - 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