SA remains “at war” with the coronavirus and will have to find additional resources to limit casualties, with the worst of the pandemic yet to come, President Cyril Ramaphosa says.
The disease has continued to spread despite a national lockdown that was imposed on March 27 and brought the economy to a near-standstill. Although most businesses re-opened this month, forecasts of an exponential rise in cases have been borne out by the latest statistics that show a record 3,267 new infections on Thursday, bringing the total to 40,792 cases. Almost 850 people have died.
“We have decided that Covid-19 is a war that we need to fight and win and therefore we are going to allocate the resources that are necessary,” Ramaphosa said on Friday during a visit to Cape Town, SA’s second-largest city and the epicentre of the outbreak. “We cannot sit back and be defeated.” The president pledged to heed calls by city officials to help them access additional money, testing kits and medical staff and facilities to tackle the virus, which he said the country will have to live with for 18 months to two years. Some epidemiologists say the virus may cause 35,000 to 50,000 deaths this year.
“Cost is not the issue here, saving lives is the main issue,” Ramaphosa said. “Funding will be made available.”
What virus or your government?
Its called the cANCer, Rona is a walk in the park in comparison
A leader tells it as it is,otherwise down the years people will turn against you if things don't work out. WHO,Prof Peter Piot,Dr Z.Mkhize ,Prof Abdool Karim etc made it unambiguously clear COVID19 not going away any time soon
A leader don't talk like that.
It’s a bad stain of flu. When gov is finished with Covid SA will be compared to Zim.
What a pity the gov does not share the real statistics of the deaths with us. All cloak and mirrors. And then the backlog. And now the fear mongering. Actually it is a bad strain of flu. This seems to be a scamdemic
Milking this fake pandemic till Jesus comes. ANCMustFall
The predictions are always worse than the reality. There is a cure but big pharms cannot earn from it as the patent has expired. And since big pharma has bribed WHO, GAVI, CDC Africa, the media and our leaders we won't get it.
Eish Ramaphosa yhoooo! He always say the most obvious things, I'm still waiting for a real heartfelt speech from HIM
The Oresident, the Hon Minister of Heath, and their teams are hard at work to protect South Africans against the devastating effects of COVID-19. Congratulations and thanks to that. This is not time to play politic. Either you support the fight against the virus or stay indoors
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