Police and the military will patrol the streets to ensure people adhere to the lockdown regulations
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS/ELMOND JIYANE
“We now have more than 900 people who are [infected] as the minister told me, and we fear it might rise much further than that,” Ramaphosa said during an update after a meeting with the AU bureau, which held a teleconference to co-ordinate the continent’s approach to the Covid-19 pandemic.He did not provide details, but a statement issued a short while later by health minister Zweli Mkhize put the number at 917, an increase of 206 on the day before.
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