The health minister says the number of Covid-19 cases is increasing more slowly than anticipated.
Speaking at a new conference in Durban, Zweli Mkhize said the number of Covid-19 cases was increasing slower than anticipated.
He hastened to add that the fifth day of the national lockdown was too soon to gauge its effect, and Nazir Ismail, of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, said the apparent slowdown in the rate of reported cases should be viewed with caution. However, new evidence has emerged from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the new coronavirus originated in January, suggesting that strict control measures in the first 50 days of the outbreak retarded its spread and may have saved more than 700,000 people from infection.
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