COVID-19: Mkhize defends the decision to reopen the economy



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“What we wanted to save our people from is that they shouldn’t have the problem of food security, the problem of income security, unemployment, etc. It is the majority of black people who lose their jobs because The economy is closed, it is the majority who have the challenge that they have access to income, so when we reopen the economy it is not about big business, it is about the fact that blacks are the backbone of the economy, they work the economy, but they also depend on that economy, the government can give many packages, “said Mkhize.

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The country currently has more than 630,000 infections.

That’s after more than 2,300 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.

About 87 percent of patients have recovered from the coronavirus.

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