Lockdown level 2: Zweli Mkhize on 'easing restrictions'

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Health minister Zweli Mkhize has hinted that South Africans can expect good news this week as his team is preparing to make recommendations to the national coronavirus command council around the easing of lockdown restrictions.

The country's Covid-19 cases have declined from a peak of more than 10,000 daily infections to 2,512 cases recorded on Tuesday evening.“We are preparing submissions. We will need to make recommendations around easing restrictions, and the NCCC will have to take a lot of issues into account. The president will give us guides as to what we are able to do,” said Mkhize.

“If we want to see things changing and the restrictions eased, we must focus on masks, use hand sanitisers and wash our hands.”no later than Saturday if Fosad's recommendation is accepted by the NCCC and endorsed by the cabinet.“From a health perspective, we still recommend we continue with the state of disaster. We feel it is too early to end it,” he said.

 

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