Field workers will visit homes in villages, towns and cities to screen residents, and people with severe symptoms will be hospitalised.
Those infected but asymptomatic or with moderate symptoms will have to remain in isolation at home or at government quarantine centres, the president said.
Mobile technology will be used to trace people who will have been in contact with confirmed coronavirus patients.Five in quarantine after contact with Alex coronavirus patientSouth Africa was Monday observing its fourth day of a 21-day lockdown order, but authorities have struggled to keep everyone at home.But he expressed concern about those who had defied the order and"have not yet appreciated the seriousness of this disease".
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