“This a matter of survival, we dare not fail.” President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended the national lockdown by another two weeks to curb new Covid-19 infections.
, saying that failing to do so would allow the pandemic to “engulf” the country and claim tens of thousands of lives.
Thanking South Africans for their co-operation and patience, Rampahosa said the Covid-19 pandemic was worsening around the world, with over 1.5-million confirmed cases. “We risk reversing the gains we have made over the past week, rendering useless the great sacrifices we have all made,” Ramaphosa said.He said that, after “careful consideration”, it had been decided to extend the lockdown by two weeks, until the end of April, with most of the lockdown measures remaining in place. The full lockdown would therefore be for five weeks.
Ramaphosa added that the government would use the next two weeks to ramp up public-health interventions.
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