LETTER: Lockdown: politicians are sidelining scientists
KwaZulu-Natal is creating its own Covid-19 protocols, which will discourage people from getting tested
I came back from work in the medical field too tired to cook. I was hungry. It was a difficult day. Yet I cannot go to Pick n Pay, Checkers, Spar or Woolies for a cooked meal. Trade & industry minister Ebrahim Patel, who doubles as SA’s food tsar, is against it. What options do I have?
In KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala and his cabinet are creating their own Covid-19 protocols as they go along. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) guidelines are thrown out of the window. If I get infected in my line of work I will be taken by force by Zikalala’s Covid-19 officers. It does not matter that the WHO says if I am asymptomatic I can self-isolate. Or that I am a health professional and know what to do...
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