ANALYSIS: Was Ramaphosa right to extend the lockdown?
President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to take SA into his confidence and reveal how the data shows that Covid-19 could kill far more people than halting SA’s limping economy ever will
10 April 2020 - 00:25
Cyril Ramaphosa was entirely presidential when he stepped up to the podium on Thursday night and asked South Africans to “make an even greater sacrifice” and “endure” another two weeks of lockdown. He revealed that the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in SA had risen by 4.8% to 1,934 people by Thursday.
Ramaphosa was probably right that it’s too soon to end the lockdown, as doing so would lay the platform for a “massive and uncontrollable resurgence of the disease”...
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