President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday evening announce whether the government will relax national lockdown regulations to level 3 - that would see the opening of the economy as more industries would be allowed to operate.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was on Wednesday evening expected to announce whether the government will would relax national lockdown regulations to level 3 - which would see the opening of the economy as more industries would be allowed to operate.
The presidency announced that the address would take place on Wednesday evening at 8.30pm and would be about “South Africa’s ongoing measures to manage the spread of the coronavirus through the implementation of a risk-adjusted strategy". Ramaphosa chaired a sitting of the national command council on Covid-19, the co-ordinating structure of the cabinet tasked with managing the Covid-19 crisis, which heard an update from health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.
When Ramaphosa first announced the risk- adjusted system on April 23, during his latest address to the nation, he said that the government would have the liberty of moving back and forth between levels depending on the health-care system's ability to manage infections.
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