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Zimbabwean police encourage people to practice social distancing to prevent the spread of coronoavirus while in a queue to enter a supermarket in Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, March, 30, 2020. Zimbabwe went into a lockdown for 21 days in an effort to curb the spread of the coronoavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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In Zimbabwe, 'you win coronavirus or you win starvation'
March 30, 2020 10:45 a.m.

In Zimbabwe, 'you win coronavirus or you win starvation'

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — “We are already ruined. What more harm can coronavirus do?" Irene Kampira asked as she sorted secondhand clothes at a bustling market in a poor suburb of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.