Covid-19 lockdown won’t just end, but be phased out
For now, the plan is still to lift some measures from April 30, says Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
16 April 2020 - 14:25
The national lockdown implemented to curb the spread of Covid-19 will be phased out instead of coming to an abrupt halt, co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Thursday.
“There are measures that will remain beyond the lockdown,” she said during a media briefing. “When we do stop the lockdown, we cannot do it abruptly — that today we are in complete lockdown and tomorrow we open completely. We have to phase-in so that there is an orderly move to normality.”..
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