This is according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, who held a media briefing this afternoon to update the nation on the department’s efforts in curbing the spread of the virus.However, Mkhize said these numbers did not point to an explosion of the outbreak in the country.
He lauded the work of the country’s healthcare workers, whom he said were fighting the outbreak in a heroic way as there have been 410 recoveries.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize He said it will only be through contact tracing, mass screening and testing interventions that the country will maintain a lower spread rate during and post the lockdown.“[President Cyril Ramaphosa] said we need to scale up screening of the disease. We have had a slow but good start to this, as we have screened 456 074 people. We are asking provinces to move up on those targets,” he said.
Equally important will be scaling up the number of tracers. To this end, Mkhize said 13 488 trace personnel had been enrolled.
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