{"id":35635,"date":"2021-02-27T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=35635"},"modified":"2021-02-27T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:51:20","slug":"local-businesses-fed-up-with-hard-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/local-businesses-fed-up-with-hard-lockdowns","title":{"rendered":"Local Businesses Fed Up With Hard Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has said Zimbabwe may struggle to achieve even 0,5% gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year due to the repeated imposition of hard lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest report titled: \u201c2020 Achievements in Retrospect\u201d, the ZNCC appealed to the government to move to targeted lockdowns which allow all formal businesses to remain open rather than blanket lockdowns. The report said:<\/p>\n<p>We will be thankful to the Almighty if we are to post even a +0,5% GDP growth for 2021, with a negative 6% to 9% being our forecast before the economy moves out of the hole in the second half of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The services sector is becoming the major driver of the Zimbabwean economy and the hard lockdowns we continue experiencing will not do a favour to an economy with almost 61% concentration of the services sector.<\/p>\n<p>We have had enough lockdowns and we have to graduate to smart and targeted lockdowns with all formal businesses expected to remain open whilst adhering to the guidelines of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe first imposed a hard lockdown at the end of March last year to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus which causes the respiratory disease called COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>After subsequently relaxing the lockdown from mid-2020 onwards, the government reverted to a hard lockdown in January this year to contain a second wave of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The lockdowns have further hurt an already struggling economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has said Zimbabwe may struggle to achieve even 0,5% gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year due to the repeated imposition of hard lockdowns. 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