Cyril Ramaphosa: Government’s Nation-wide Lockdown Slowed COVID-19 Transmissions And Saved Many Lives

Cyril Ramaphosa

Since the beginning of May, when we began the gradual easing of the nation-wide coronavirus lockdown, many people have started returning to work.
 
As part of the phased recovery of the economy, companies in certain specified industries have been able to resume part or all of their operations.
 
The national coronavirus alert level is now at 4, which means that extreme precautions remain in place to limit community transmission. Our goal is to steadily reduce the alert level by keeping the rate of infection down and getting our health system ready for the inevitable increase in cases.
 
As the lockdown is gradually eased, life will slowly return. But it will not be life as we knew it before.
 
While there is still much about the pandemic that is unknown, experts now agree that the virus will remain a threat to global public health for