Leta ya Afurika y’epfo yatangaje amabwiriza mashya, arimo no kongera kubuza ubucuruzi bw’inzoga, mu rwego rwo kurwanya ikwirakira rya coronavirus.
Hashyizweho umukwabu wa nijoro, ndetse kwambara agapfukamunwa umuntu asohotse hanze bigirwa itegeko.
Perezida Cyril Ramaphosa yavuze ko kubuza gucuruza inzoga ku nshuro ya kabiri muri uyu mwaka bizagabanyiriza akazi urwego rw’ubuzima.
Inkuru dukesha BBC ivuga ko izi ngamba zifashwe mu gihe abanduye muri iki gihugu bamaze kugera kuri kimwe cya kane cya miliyoni.
Abamaze kwicwa na coronavirus bamaze kurenga 4,000 kandi leta iteganya ko iyi mibare ishobora kuzamuka ikagera ku 50,000 kugeza mu mpera z’uyu mwaka.
Afurika y’epfo nicyo gihugu kizahajwe n’iyi virus kurusha ibindi byoza muri Afurika.
Mu ijambo ku batuye iki gihugu, Ramaphosa yavuze ko “abantu benshi bafashe ingamba zo kwirinda ko iyi virus ikwirakwira”, gusa ko hari n’abandi “badafite icyo bitayeho mu kwirinda no kurinda abandi”.
Yagize ati: “Hari abantu bamwe bihaye gukora ibirori, n’ibikundi byo kunywa, abandi bakagenda mu kivunge cy’abantu batambaye udupfukamunwa”.
Ramaphosa avuga izi ngamba zigamije gukiza iki gihugu umuraba wa coronavirus, ibihe bidasanzwe bishobora gukomeza kugeza tariki 15 z’ukwezi kwa munani.
Leta ivuga ko yateganyije ibitanda 28,000 by’abarwaye Covid-19 gusa. Ariko Ramaphosa yavuze ko igihugu kigikeneye abavuzi nibura 12,000 harimo abaganga, abaforomokazi n’abahanga mu igororangingo.
Kubuza ubucuruzi bw’inzoga bigamije kugabanya imirwano y’abasinzi, urugomo mu ngo n’agakungu k’abanywi ka buri weekend muri iki gihugu.
Abaganga na polisi bavuga ko ubwo gucuruza inzoga byari byarabujijwe mu mezi atatu mu gihe gishize, byagabanyije cyane abazanwa mu bitaro ikubagahu.
Ariko abenga inzoga n’imivinyu n’ababicuruza, bo bashinjaga leta ko ishaka guhagarika ubushabitsi bwabo.