BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI
Visitors, including returning residents and tourists, checking into quarantine centres in Victoria Falls will have to part with at least US$65 a day.
According to a circular from Hwange district medical officer Fungayi Musinami obtained by VicFallsLive, there are three approved private quarantine centres in the resort city namely Phezulu Lodge, Shearwater Explores Village and Zambezi Boutique Lodge.
At the Shearwater Explores Village locals will be charged between U$65 and US$130 while foreigners have to part between $110 and US$190 a night.
The rates depend on the type of room.
The Zambezi Boutique Lodge charges US$$100 per room per night for bed and breakfast.
Phezulu Lodge, which used to charge US$60 per person since last year increased its rates to US$$95 for accommodation breakfast, lunch and dinner plus two drinks per day.
Visitors have to undergo the mandatory quarantine for 10 days.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday gazetted rules imposing quarantine on all travellers entering the country, including returning residents in response to the emergence of the Omicrone variant of Covid 1-9.
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who work and live in neighbouring South Africa are expected to travel home over Christmas.