Opposition Parties Blast eThekwini Over Bungling of COVID-19 Strategy

Sandile Motha

The soaring of Corona virus cases within eThekwini district has been turned into a political football with opposition parties lambasting the strategy that the city has employed to deal with the pandemic.

By the end of this week Durban accounted for more than 600 confirmed COVID-19 cases with an infected rate of an average of 10 cases reported daily. The total tally for the province stood at 919 on Thursday.

eThekwini and iLembe districts are leading the pack with the highest infections.

These statistics, the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Economic Freedom Fighters say, was frightening and a ticking time bomb.

“This exposes the MEC for health because the dramatic increase in numbers show that the COVID- 19 management strategy was not yielding any positive results. There are also no proper records on how many homes have been visited to conduct tests for Corona so far.

“If we