SA hit the 100 day mark of the national lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak on July 4.
Since March 26, the country has seen the different levels, phases and legislative loopholes as SA navigates the National Disaster Act to flatten the curve and help health care facilities prepare for upsurges in infections.
In 100 days, the national lockdown has evolved to advanced level 3 with defining moments including the ongoing ban on the sale of cigarettes and tobacco and the limited reopening of schools. A police woman demonstrates social distancing to the elderly waiting in line to collect their social grants in Alexandra on March 30 2020.Police officers and members of the SANDF patrolled the streets and various hostels in Alexandra. There is a nation wide lockdown, as part of the new regulations to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus.A member of the SANDF offers hand sanitiser to residents while patrolling the streets of Soweto to enforce lockdown regulations.
A nurse tests a resident during a sanitation programme of informal settlements in Mkhuze, Northern Zululand.Delisiwe Khanyase,59, reacts as she is being tested for Coronavirus at home in Umlazi, South of Durban. Government is doing door-to-door screenings and testing while the country is still under lockdown so as to identify infected people before lockdown is lifted.Ben Amato plays the saxophone on his porch while the family entertains the neighbours in Orange Grove during lockdown.
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