CHARLES MOLELE
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa says Cabinet has decided to move the country to Alert Level 3 lockdown following the speed at which new coronavirus infections have been rising in some provinces, piling pressure on government to act decisively.
The curfew will now start from 10pm-to-4am, Ramaphosa said in a live address following a meeting of the National Coronavirus Command Council, the President’s Coordinating Council and Cabinet.
On Sunday, acting health minister Mmamoloko Ngubane-Kubayi announced that there were more than 79 000 active coronavirus cases in South Africa, one of the highest daily numbers since the beginning of the pandemic.
This after 9 320 new cases were recorded in the last reporting cycle.
According to the latest figures from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, another 114 people have succumbed to the virus, pushing the total number of fatalities in the country to 57 706.
The positivity rate now stands
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