South Africa Extends Coronavirus Lockdown
South African National Defence Force soldiers drive in an Armoured Personnel Carrier in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, on March 30, 2020, during a patrol to enforce the 21-day nationwide lockdown in Sout Africa. PIETER BAUERMEISTER / AFPSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday prolonged by a further 14 days a national lockdown aimed at stemming coronavirus, saying the struggle was “far from over” as infections rose to 1,934.
“In the two weeks before the lockdown, the average daily increase in new cases was around 42 percent,” Ramaphosa said.But he warned against complacency and said it was not the time to “relax”. The president and all his ministers will now also take a one-third salary cut for three months and donate the money to the country’s virus solidarity fund.“If we end the lockdown too soon or too abruptly, we risk a massive and uncontrollable resurgence of the disease,” Ramaphosa warned.
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