Harder lockdown looms in Gauteng

Gauteng health MEC Bandile Masuku told Sowetan yesterday that an"intermittent lockdown" and taking the province back to level four was being discussed to arrest the recent spikes in infections.

"Remember the president did allude to the fact that one area of the country can remain at a particular level of lockdown. The issue of the lockdown makes it easier to consider some of it to be intermittent so that we don't completely close down activity but we can be able to give time to those who are infected to recover."By Monday SA's most populous province had 39,841 confirmed cases, a jump of 5,500 from Saturday.

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