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Health experts have added their voices to calls for government to scrap the National State of Disaster completely as it expires at midnight.

Professor of Vaccinology at Wits University, Shabir Madhi says the remaining restrictions and regulations no longer serve any purpose and should be lifted.

This comes as the National Coronavirus Command Council meets to deliberate on measures that will continue to regulate the pandemic if the national state of disaster is not extended. Prof Madhi says the country needs to move to a phase of learning to live with the virus: “Unfortunately, when it comes to wearing of masks, it hasn’t assisted us in keeping sown infection. Again to emphasize, these things might have been required at a point in time when we didn’t have extensive number of people, and now we sit at 80-85% that have developed protection against severe disease and death.

Madhi added: “So, we should stop pretending that we are actually achieving much with interventions and regulations, which have failed dismally unfortunately in SA in protecting against infections, it might have had some value at some point in time but certainly not at this phase of the pandemic.”

 

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Talking to a deaf

IT IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION NAMELY THE ANC IN GOVERNMENT TO CANCEL IT.

Sign petition to remove Thulas nxesi

Well that didn't happen

I will never believe this after my wife was said to be covid positive,they were guessing so that they could be seen to be doing their job,and a female nurse insisted on her having this shit cos I took her to hospital and i was negative,there's no covid,it's hoax

If this is a health crisis, why are they not taking the advice of health experts, why did they extend it THERE IS NO DISASTER!!!

Didn't the state of disaster lapse at midnight last night? Why the complete silence from government on such an important issue

Kudlalwe ngathi lah

hold up, is it not before 12 the 14th of the month? meaning it's done? NO GOAL POST MOVING will be tolerated. We are gatvol

Remember whenever ramapussy and his NCCC clowns used to gather and make nonsensical decisions regarding OUR lives? He always used to say that those decisions were taken and based on the advice of health experts...will he be taking their advice now aswel or will kopdoek dictate🤔

Will Serial Gates Ramaphosa address the nation?

The 'pendemic' is OVER!!!!!

I'm tired of this scam

It takes 5 to 10 years for any REAL vaccine to be tested for LONG TERM safety events, but they want to continue injecting people without any long term observations done. This is not acceptable. We need to know what the CONTENTS of these injections are, the FULL list please.

So no more masks ladies and gentlemen

crimemind3 Should have been extended yesterday - it was not Covid is over

Uthini yena u William Gates?

So the President can talk today

Nkosana will not be happy about that

AbsaSouthAfrica is the new medical expert

Please let’s do it and limit it to health facilities and places like home affairs and gov offices

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