POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Covid-19 screening and testing drive to continue
Campaign to contain spread of virus steps up a gear as SA enters the second week of national lockdown
05 April 2020 - 16:05
SA is into its second week of the 21-day national lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus, with a screening and testing drive set to intensify.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on March 30 that a 10,000-strong force of field workers would be deployed to visit homes across the country to screen people for symptoms of the virus. The fight against the highly contagious disease has also seen the introduction of mobile technology to track and trace the contacts of those found to be positive. ..
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