High Court dismisses bid to stop private not-for profit COVID-19  isolation centre

"Even if there was a threat to the environmental rights of the applicant  as an individual, this is a case for the application  of the principle Salus Populi Suprema Lex which is the foundation of every  modem  constitution, including  the Constitution of Zimbabwe which is the supreme  law [Constitution of Zimbabwe, section 2].  ... The maxim "Salus Populi Suprema Lex"· translates  to: "The health (or welfare,  good, salvation, felicity) of  the people  is the supreme  law'';  or "Let  the welfare  of the people  be the supreme (or highest) law  ...  The environmental rights of the applicant ...  must be subordinate to the public interest  which  can  be served  by refurbishing  the Medical  Centre  in question  in order  to establish an isolation centre which would facilitate the treatment of affected patients without endangering the  puhlic  at  large.   The  welfare  of  the  people  must  therefore  prevail  over  the individual  interests of the applicant."

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