President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a national lockdown for 21 days. Addressing South Africans on government’s measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, Ramaphosa says the lockdown will start on midnight Thursday, 26 March till 16 April.
South Africa currently has 402 numbers of cases with Gauteng having the largest number of cases followed by Western Cape. “The categories of people who will be exempted from this lockdown are the following, health workers in the public and private sectors, emergency personnel, those who are in security services such as the police, traffic officers, military medical personnel, soldiers and other persons necessary for our response to the pandemic.
Countries around Ethiopia’s borders Eritrea, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Djibouti and Somalia have all except South Sudan reported cases of coronavirus. Closing its land borders to protect the spread of COVID -19 means that people will not be able to cross and leave the country to and from these countries by road.
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