SA Covid-19 cases over 900, says Ramaphosa
Police and the military will patrol the streets to ensure people adhere to the lockdown regulations
26 March 2020 - 17:13
There are now more than 900 cases of Covid-19 in SA, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday, hours before the country goes into a national lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.
“We now have more than 900 people who are [infected] as the minister told me, and we fear it might rise much further than that,” Ramaphosa said during an update after a meeting with the AU bureau, which held a teleconference to co-ordinate the continent’s approach to the Covid-19 pandemic...
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