There are lessons for SA from China’s successful battle against Covid-19 | Day39ofLockdown
South Africa is being commended worldwide for its timely and decisive efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Its success to date is largely due to the fact it is following the Chinese model of beating back the virus, whereby China kept millions of citizens at home, engaged in meticulous testing and tracing, and isolation of those infected.
The government closed schools, built more than a dozen vast temporary hospitals and deployed thousands of medical staff to Wuhan and Hubei province. Caretakers at apartment buildings were forced to act as security guards and monitor people’s temperature, and inspected food and medical deliveries. The government devised a massive surveillance system using advanced technology and big data to track infections.
The green, yellow, or red coding reflected in QR codes determined whether citizens were allowed access to public spaces, subways, shopping malls, offices, or cafés. The facial-recognition technology was even adapted so that it could identify people even if they were masked. China’s extensive use of technology is not necessarily something that Africa can easily replicate, but South Africa has already started using smartphones to track and trace infections.
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