THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has welcomed South Africa’s move to an adjusted level 2 lockdown, but says that government needs to go a step further to reduce gatherings.
The trade federation said that the stricter evening curfew between 23h00 – 04h00 will help save lives while minimising the impact on livelihoods.
However, it said that it was ‘deeply concerned’ that the government did not go further in reducing the still disproportionately high numbers of persons allowed to gather indoors and outdoors.
Most of such gatherings are social and not economic in nature, and these gatherings are the largest vectors for spreading the pandemic, it said.
“As we seek to delay the third wave, these numbers need to be reduced to 50 indoors and 100 outdoors. We should not gamble with the lives of South Africans by allowing such large public gatherings that are not essential to
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