'No amount of high-efficiency particulate air filters will protect people who are close to each other, travelling even for minutes to their destinations,' the party said.
SAA planes at OR Tambo International Airport, 14 November 2019. Picture: Neil McCartney
On Monday, Mbalula relaxed air travel regulations after the only airports operating in phase 1 of lockdown Level 3 were OR Tambo International Airport, Cape Town International Airport, and King Shaka.was due to the fact that they are fitted with air filters that absorbed any type of virus, which the EFF condemned.
“If Mbalula’s logic was true, Covid-19 would have never arrived in South Africa or any other country in the world. The EFF further said that social distancing, particularly in public transport, was non-negotiable if the aim was to protect people’s lives.
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