CHARLES MOLELE
SOUTH Africa’s state of national disaster will stay in place until at least December 15, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Wednesday during a live address as he unveiled cautious plans to lift restrictions and prevent rising COVID-19 infections.
“We need to take measures to contain the rise in infections. In response to the rising infections, we are implementing the resurgence plan that has been developed together with the surge team deployed to South Africa by the World Health Organisation,” said Ramaphosa.
The president said he was ‘getting concerned’, and ‘alarmed’ by what he has seen on social media, and even of television, where South Africans were holding big parties, gatherings and social events as though the virus does not exist.
To date, South Africa has recorded 742,394 coronavirus cases.
Of these people, over 92% have recovered.
But the greatest blow the country has suffered since the start of
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