KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala has announced a provincial command team that will coordinate urgent efforts to fight the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus in the province.
KZN currently has 19 coronavirus infections, the third most in the country behind Gauteng, 61, and the Western Cape, 31.
Zikalala announced the team after a special extended provincial cabinet meeting in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday. To ensure that the provincial plan is executed with military precision, Zikalala said they would develop a checklist that would ensure that “nothing falls through the cracks”.Further outlining the whole plan with the theme “Siyayinqoba i-Corona Virus Covid-19”, Zikalala said the command team would be chaired by himself and coordinated by Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu.
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