President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet has extended South Africa’s national state of disaster, but says that work is now being done to bring it to a close next month.
This follows a briefing by the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure last week to determine the extent to which the management of the Covid-19 pandemic still required the existence of the state of disaster.
“After noting that some of the key departments dealing with Covid-19 had not yet concluded their analysis,, in terms of Section 27 of the Disaster Management Act.” He noted that South Africa has now lifted nearly all economic and social restrictions and that the country was now entering a ‘new phase of the pandemic’.
“We are now ready to enter a new phase in our management of the pandemic. It is my intention to end the national state of disaster as soon as we have finalised other measures under the National Health Act and other legislation to contain the pandemic.”
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