While there is a need to reopen the economy, the risk of fresh Covid-19 infections remains. Large gatherings such as those at sports stadiums remain off-limits in SA.Covid-19 recoveries stood at 566,555 which translates to a recovery rate of 88.6%, the health ministry said on Monday evening.
The total number of tests conducted to date is 3,808,949 with 8,759 new tests conducted since the last report on Sunday evening."Regrettably, we report 115 more Covid-19 related deaths: 25 from KwaZulu-Natal, five from Gauteng, 12 from Eastern Cape, seven from Free State, 10 from North West, 13 from Western Cape and 43 from Limpopo," said health minister Zweli Mkhize.
We are not ready to open everything immediately. We are moving in that direction, the economy does need to be opened, however we will ease into the decrease in restrictions.The surge that we saw happened when we moved from level 4 to level 3. We would’ve expected the same to happen when we moved to level 2. It has not happened yet.We’ve not discounted this as other countries have shown resurgence after showing a plateau.