AFTER two years of lockdown, and several lockdown revisions and announcements, president Cyril Ramaphosa’s next family meeting on lockdown restrictions is likely to be the last, the Sunday Times reports.
Speaking to the paper, minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele confirmed the next time Ramaphosa speaks to the nation about Covid-19, it will be about “something else”, but did not indicate what restrictions will be lifted or when the announcement will take place.
Ramaphosa has previously indicated that the latest state of disaster extension will be the last, with government now expected to introduce more permanent long-term regulations to help manage Covid in the country.
In a media briefing on Friday (4 March), health minister Joe Phaahla said his department has been hard at work to formulate new regulations to replace the country’s state of disaster and is now ready to present its proposals to the cabinet and the National Coronavirus Command
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