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The president on Wednesday night said most of the country will move to level three.
FILE: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde Image: Twitter.
CAPE TOWN: Alan Winde, Prime Minister of the Western Cape, wants the entire province to move to level three closure restrictions as soon as possible.
The president on Wednesday night said most of the country will move to level three. But hotspots like the Cape may have to stay at level four.
Relaxation of the restrictions, Winde emphasized, would be in conjunction with a plan to deal with critical points of infection.
He said that with the province’s health system in place, it was no longer possible to maintain level four curbs anywhere in the Cape or South Africa.
The blockade, which has helped buy the country time to prepare the health system, is suffocating the economy.
The prime minister added that the Western Cape had taken an evidence-based and data-driven approach at critical points. It is a “government-wide” approach, he said, which combines the public and private sectors.
On Wednesday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that if the government had not implemented the blockade, the death toll from coronavirus would have been much higher.
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