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Ramaphosa pleased with SA’s preparedness to deal with coronavirus

President Cyril Ramaphosa has addressed the media on how the government is handling the first case of coronavirus in South Africa.says he is satisfied with the country’s preparedness to deal with the outbreak of the coronavirus . The country has now recorded its first positive case of a man who travelled from Italy.

A 38-year-old man in KwaZulu-Natal, who travelled to Italy with his wife, was part of a group of 10 people who arrived back in South Africa on 1 March. The other travellers are now being traced. He made the comments as he was closing the debate in the national assembly on South Africa’s readiness to deal with the virus.

“This is like any other flu-like illness which is a communicable disease by the spread of droplets. So if you can make sure when you sneeze, when you cough we cough into a handkerchief or an elbow you just don’t cough openly where any other person can get what is coming from you. Do this in any other form of illness either than coronavirus?”Wits University medical expert on climate and viruses, Matthew Chersich says warm weather in South Africa could slow down the spread of the coronavirus.

Zikalala says the province will be able to deal with cases of the virus. “We have taken alert on the issue of coronavirus and we want to update our people. We wish to assure the people of KwaZulu-Natal that government is ready to deal effectively with a potential coronavirus threat. We have placed on alert the following hospitals; Greys, Addington, Ngwelezane, and Manguzi Hospital.

 

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Really He is in for a surprise.

Please yamasimba nxa

Shem man

We're not ready. We'll never be. This country is corrupt, and there is no one, not one soul in government, who is willing to care for South African citizens.

How? Please explain in detail?

Is ons Land gereed? 1ste mut d parlement lede d voorbeeld stel n maskers bgin dra.2de mut d minister van gesondheid toesien dat da maskers bskikbaar is by skole,hospitale,klinieke, public vervoer n polisie stasies.Asb muni wag todat ons land in n ramp verval ni!!!!

Soon he will be shocked as usual

🤣😂😂

This time he is aware whats happening in the country

By the way, the infected guy is 'self quarantined' at his home. He could just get up & take a stroll to the mall & fuck up the entire country.

Bru the case was literally missed at every point of 'government preparedness'. So for clarity, every single thing the government did...didn't work. Like 0%. Even the Quarantine is self imposed

Who? that one too much manga manga clueless business

Right now I have more faith in Bushiri and Lukau than the SA government, And mna I think very little of these false prophets

Mr shocked

I hope South Africans don't fall for this talk cause the ANC government never fulfill it's them at your own peril.

Mxm!!!!

I wish one or two of this fools in Parliament gets affected by this epidemic

The guy that has contracted the Corona Virus came back from Italy, didn't get swabbed at the airport, walked around in South Africa for days with it and after going to the doctor on his own was told that he has the virus. So much for the government being prepared. CoronaVirusSA

Hope he won't be SHOCKED when people start dying due to the virus.

He mustn't be please but should be worried instead 🤐🤐🤐

No hand sanitizers in our hospitals.

Cupcake is rubbish , he lied with his ministers

How did this person get into a plane without being checked? Italy is letting people spreading this virus

South Africans will steal the virus before it can spread because in sa everything is stealable 😂

This man have no interest of South Africans, he is more driven by money

It feels good to know that the Sudden Self Proclaimed Guardians of Blackness did Not Blame Pravin or Cyril or WMC for the Covid 19 or Corona Virus Maybe it's a Fake feel good feeling

Mxm

Meet Mr shocked 😲.. Ramaphosa

Ae, rona tota re mo mathateng...I don't think we're ready to contain an outbreak

Ramaphosa talks too much sometimes. If SA was prepared they should have detected it at Port of entry.

Sometimes appointing old ppl it's useless, zweli mkhize won't do anything even mbalula he's part of it at the airport.

His next to a plane, mxm

Politicians take us for fools hey!

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

Lies

La mo tshepa?

Lets hope he wont be shocked wgen he finds out we aren’t that ready

I would like to send mr ThumaMina to go to China to convey a message of support to all the affected Chinese nations, let's see if he is not scared of Corona. CoronaVirusChallenge

South Africans don't believe anybody who's trying to allay your fears about coronavirus. Their primary objective is to not cause panic it is never your health. You are on your own. You are at greater risk than ramaphosa and all the anc corrupt. Consider yourself sick already

He's a nefelibata 💩💩

How🤷. They can't still get it right in the borders. Our sooo called 'current government' they don't care about us🤷

Argh!! We gonna die!! CoronaVirusSA

Mxm

He'll be shocked soon

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