SA could move to level 2 this week to save economy from Covid-19 battering

TimesLIVE understands from two people who attended the meeting on Sunday that the dominant view among directors-general was that the economy had taken a battering and that more sectors should be opened to fire it up again.

Another attendee said there were robust discussions about the lockdown and the safest ways to open more sectors. He said workstreams of the directors-general forum had interacted with the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure , which co-ordinates all security and law enforcement operations in the country, to advise on how best the country could open up more given that infection rates were steadying, and the virus was being contained.

Contacted on Wednesday, cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams refused to comment, saying discussions in the NCCC and cabinet were highly confidential. “If it’s not been cleared, I can’t talk about it,” she said. SA, which has so far recorded more than 566,000 infections and 10,000 deaths, has enforced one of the strictest lockdowns in its battle against Covid-19. This includes prohibiting the sale of alcohol and tobacco and enforcing a night-time curfew.

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