The SA government has undertaken one of the biggest peacetime operations in the country’s history to fight the pandemic. This enormous operation had to be organised in just a few weeks. It included drawing up government regulations for every sector and economic activity in the country.
It also had to find the best strategy to protect the lives of every person in SA; get enough doctors and medical personnel; find hospital beds, medical equipment and personal protective equipment for an unknown number of patients; organise testing and screening of hundreds of thousands of people; and devise protocols for every possible medical contingency. This included getting the scientists to work on finding a vaccine...
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