Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has raised the spectre of introducing severe movement restrictions on coronavirus hotspots if health interventions failed to reduce transmission of the disease. level3lockdown COVID19inSA
Cape Town - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Friday raised the spectre of introducing severe movement restrictions on coronavirus hotspots if health interventions failed to reduce transmission of the disease.
The government this week declared seven metropolitan areas and five districts hotspots because they had five or more Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people. Cape Town has by far the highest incidence, with 127 cases per 100,000 people, and is at the centre of the department's containment effort. Mkhize's special advisor on Covid-19, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, said the surge of infections in Cape Town could be traced to transmission in malls and supermarkets in the last weeks of level 5 of the lockdown and was likely caused by so-called "super-spreading events".
"We will see outbreaks, we have seen one in the last few days at the mines, but it is not a reason to panic, it is not a reason to shut everything down," he said.
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