EDITORIAL: Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t
President Cyril Ramaphosa faces one of his most difficult decisions in mulling whether to extend the Covid-19 lockdown
09 April 2020 - 05:12
As SA enters the Easter long weekend 2020 under Covid-19 lockdown, the question on many lips is whether the scheduled three weeks ending on April 16 will be sufficient to disrupt the spread of the novel coronavirus and “flatten the curve” of infection.
The experience of the rest of the world, much of it at least a week or two ahead of SA in the progression of the pandemic, indicates that the answer is “probably not”...
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