The World Health Organisation has advised the South African government to monitor the spread of Covid-19 on a seven-day cycle to determine whether the country should move to a different level of lockdown.
this week, the organisation's Dr Ambrose Talisuna praised the government's management of the Covid-19 outbreak.
"Our guidance has been that we might have to be in this scenario… where we open and close. That has to be evidence-based. If the trend numbers continue to go down and are sustained in all the provinces, then you can say we can ease more. That is why it is important to collate very good data from the municipal level and analyse [it] over time.
"Cases in this country appear to have peaked at around July, and for the past three weeks we've been seeing some decline. The provinces have different levels in terms of testing. But there are other ways to look [at it] - for example in Nigeria, there have been some studies that have looked at serology in the population, so at least we have a clue on the degree of transmission that may be going on there.
Africa has fared relatively well in terms of the pandemic, defying what Talisuna called"doomsday predictions".
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