STAFF REPORTER
COOPERATIVE Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has extended the national state of disaster until November 15.
The state of disaster was declared on March 15 to enable the government to implement measures such as the national lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.
The government’s announcement on Wednesday comes a day after Health Minister Zweli Mkhize warned of a second wave of Covid-19 if South Africans don’t change their behaviour.
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.
In a directive published on Wednesday, Dlamini-Zuma said that the extension takes into account the need to continue augmenting the existing legislation and contingency arrangements undertaken by organs of state to address the impact of the Covid-19 disaster.
The state of disaster is
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