DA’s interim leader John Steenhuisen is calling for government to end the lockdown, saying the epidemiological models massively exaggerated the size of the COVID risk.
The DA leader’s call comes just a day after Health Minister Zweli Mkhize warned of a possible second wave of COVID-19.
Mkhize said the number of infections has been around 10,000 per week for about five weeks and there has been an increase in cases in the past two weeks.
Over 600,000 positive cases and over 17,000 deaths have been recorded.
Government declared a national state of disaster under Section 27(1) and Section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act on 15 March 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
While the state of disaster was originally set to lapse on 15 June, the act provides that the state of disaster may be extended by the Cogta minister – by notice in the gazette – for one month at a
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