Medical experts call for SA to suspend flights from Europe as Covid-19 cases grow Calls for South Africa to suspend travel to and from Europe are growing by the day as confirmed cases of Covid-19 escalate in the country.
With over 1 000 deaths recorded in Italy, and well over 150 000 infected, the whole of Italy is in lockdown, except for food stores, pharmacies, and banks. All other shops, businesses, and places where people gather are closed.
“We can only hope that at today’s Cabinet meeting, which will discuss what actions to take to combat Covid-19, brave and correct decisions will be taken,” specialist doctor Johan Cilliers told Independent Media on Saturday. “More than a million people are expected to converge at the annual ZCC gathering in Moria at Easter time, and this could prove disastrous. Many of those going to Moria are working-class people.”
“The patient went to the clinic and was referred to a hospital but at the hospital, the patient was discharged and was told it’s just minor flu. They came again and said they were in contact with a person from Italy and were having the symptoms,” she said. “At the Cape Town airport they were only interested in passengers travelling from China and surrounding countries. I walked back to the official and said I was coming from Italy. She repeated they were only interested in people coming from China and surrounding countries,” Soni said.
“I didn’t know the virus can be spread through surfaces, I thought the virus was only spread through coughing and sneezing,” one restaurant owner in Pretoria East said on Saturday.
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