Ramaphosa steps up the fight with home visits and mobile tech
Contacts to be tracked and traced; people to be tested at home
30 March 2020 - 22:00
SA will deploy a 10,000-strong force of field workers to visit homes across the country to screen people for symptoms of the Covid-19 virus and will introduce mobile technology to track and trace contacts of those found to be positive, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
The measures mark a dramatically stepped up effort by government to tackle the fight against the virus before it reaches the point where it can overwhelm the health system...
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