You can gym, go on holiday, buy alcohol and smokes too. But there are still thousands of infections happening every day.
Covid-19 is likely peaking in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced late on Saturday night as he lifted two of the most unpopular lockdown measures – the bans on alcohol and cigarettes.
Things are bad and Ramaphosa and his team knew this as they moved most of the remaining obstacles out of the way of opening. The Covid-19 numbers aided that decision.Dr Ridhwaan Suliman, of the CSIR but speaking in his personal capacity, says that in the various ways that you use to tally the pandemic’s journey to South Africa, “it is a real decline – it gives confidence that we have reached a peak”.
“A ray of light is visible on the horizon immensely difficult five months,” said Ramaphosa in his ninth address about Covid-19. The national mood has soured since his first address when he managed to secure an esprit de corps among South Africans. Since then, economic collapse combined with revelations of the serial corruption of PPE tenders by the ANC cadres has angered South Africans.
Scientists like Suliman advocate for the easing of testing criteria and for more not less testing even if demand is low:
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