The lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19 from the end of March has allowed for an equally serious and potentially deadly pandemic to take root; that of unemployment, hunger and increasing levels of poverty.
Western Cape premier Alan Winde says he will petition President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow all businesses that can open safely to do so.The lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19 has allowed for another pandemic to take root — “that of unemployment, hunger and increasing poverty”.
Winde said these facts came from a detailed report from the Western Cape government’s head of policy and strategy, Dr Hildegarde Fast, on what the pandemic looks like.heard that Western Cape expects employment to drop by 8.4% in 2020, and then to only grow by 1.9% in 2021. “It is more silent, and its effects likely more long-term to notice. But it will also cost lives in the future if we don’t fight it with the same determination as we have done with Covid-19 to date.”
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