Perezida Cyril Ramaphosa wa Afurika y’epfo yaburiye abo yise “impyisi” bungukira mu mafaranga ya Leta agenewe kurwanya icyorezo cya coronavirus, avuga ko bagiye kukabona. Aba barimo abakozi ba Leta, abacuruzi n’undi wese usahurira muri iki cyorezo.

Aya magambo ya Perezida Ramaphosa akubiye mu itangazo asohora buri cyumweru, agenewe abategetsi muri Leta bashinjwa gufata amasoko ya Leta, abacuruzi bahanika ibiciro ku bikoresho byo kwirinda, n’abategetsi bo mu nzego z’ibanze bari kwirundaho inkunga y’ingoboka y’ibiribwa igenewe abatishoboye.

Yagize ati: “Kugerageza kungukira mu makuba ari guhitana ubuzima bw’abaturage bacu buri munsi ni igikorwa cyo gutoragura. Ni nk’itsinda ry’impyisi zizengurutse inyamaswa y’umuhigo yakomeretse. Turi kubona ubujura bukorwa n’abantu na kompanyi batagira umutima-nama”.

Mu cyumweru gishize, umuvugizi wa Perezida Ramaphosa yafashe ikiruhuko nyuma yuko umugabo we avuzweho kugira aho ahuriye n’itangwa ry’amasoko yo mu rwego rw’ubuzima rwo mu ntara ya Gauteng. Uwo mugore n’umugabo we bahakana bavuga ko nta kibi na kimwe bakoze.

Perezida Ramaphosa yasezeranyije ko agiye gufatira ingamba zikomeye abazahamwa no kwiyitirira amafaranga agenewe kurwanya Covid-19. Yagize ati: “Abo bizagaragara ko barenze ku mategeko ngo bikungahaze binyuze muri aya makuba ntabwo ibyo [basahuye] bazabirya mu mahoro, hatitawe ku cyo bari cyo cyangwa uwo baziranye na we”.

Afurika y’epfo ni cyo gihugu cya mbere cyashegeshwe na Covid-19 kurusha ibindi bihugu byo muri Afurika. Kugeza ubu nkuko BBC ibitangaza, abanduye coronavirus muri icyo gihugu barenga 500,000, muri bo abarenga 8,000 imaze kubica nkuko imibare ya Kaminuza ya Johns Hopkins yo muri Amerika ibigaragaza.

Munyaneza Theogene / intyoza.com