South Africa will keep its National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) in place despite the worst of the pandemic having passed, says president Cyril Ramaphosa.
Responding in a recent parliamentary Q&A, the president noted that the council was established as a committee of cabinet on 15 March 2020 to coordinate the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The NCCC is responsible for making recommendations to the cabinet on measures necessary to manage the pandemic, he said.
“The NCCC continues to perform this function since, although the national state of disaster has been lifted, the Covid-19 pandemic is unfortunately not yet over,” Ramaphosa said.
“As a cabinet committee – which, like all other cabinet committees, was established to support the work of cabinet in whichever form the executive deems most practical or useful – the existence of the NCCC is not dependent on a national state of disaster being in operation.”
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