Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Friday said at OR Tambo International that any non-South African citizens flying into South Africa from identified high-risk countries would not be allowed entry, and measures had already been implemented throughout the day.
“They arrived because they were already airborne by the time [further] restrictions [against them] were announced.” Eighty South Africans, among them students, were screened from that flight and taken to a provincial facility in Gauteng for clinical assessments that would inform the applicable quarantine measures to be taken. Similar measures were taken with the citizens on the other flights, who were bused to the facility.The international airports affected included OR Tambo, King Shaka International in Durban and Cape Town International.
He said the national command centre, chaired by Ramaphosa, would have to decide on whether airports would still be shut down completely, but that had not yet happened.
MbalulaFikile why don't you's just shut the airports like the latter of the countries, it makes better sense 👆
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