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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
These additional measures are necessary to contain the resurgence in Nelson Mandela Bay, to prevent outbreaks resulting from social gatherings and to protect the capacity of the healthcare system to provide care to those who need it. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
When identifying a hotspot, consideration is given to the number of new COVID-19 cases per day, the testing rate within the population, the percentage positivity rate within the population, the number of active cases, the number of hospital admissions and the number of deaths. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In line with our differentiated approach to the management of the pandemic, we will therefore implement additional measures in those areas identified as coronavirus hotspots. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
If we think of this pandemic like a bush fire, we need to quickly extinguish the flare ups before they turn into an inferno. At the same time, we need to do all we can to keep the economy of our country open and to push ahead with our reconstruction and recovery effort. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Fellow South Africans, We must change our behaviour now to prevent a resurgence of the virus and manage outbreaks wherever they occur. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We are expanding public health interventions such as testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine. We are also stepping up our awareness campaigns around public health regulations. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
To prevent this we are putting into motion the resurgence plan that we developed with the World Health Organization’s surge team. We are making more capacity available at hospitals and clinics in these areas. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The most urgent task before us right now is to contain the rise in infections in the affected districts in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, and to ensure that a similar situation does not develop in other parts of the country. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
But our main problem is that there are parts of the country where people are not complying with the current restrictions and the basic prevention measures are not being followed. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
But by far the greatest contributing cause of infections is that many people are not wearing masks, and are not observing proper hygiene and social distancing. As I said during our last family meeting, at alert level 1, we have the measures we need to control the virus. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As we have said in the past these alcohol-related trauma admissions divert capacity that is needed to deal with Covid-related cases. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This is particularly the case for funerals, which are often followed by large so-called “after tears” parties. Several hospitals in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro have reported a rise in alcohol-related trauma admissions. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Social, cultural & religious gatherings are being held in large numbers. In many cases these gatherings are often attended by many more people than what is permitted under Level 1 restrictions. What is concerning is that these are also often held in venues with poor ventilation. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Many people are travelling between provinces and within each province in higher numbers, especially with the festive season approaching. In the case of the Garden Route, this also applies to the movement of seasonal workers who work in one province and live in another province. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In the Eastern Cape and Western Cape there has been an increase in both reported COVID-19 deaths and excess deaths. This must be a concern for every one of us. There are a number of reasons for the rise in transmission. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Hospital admissions in these districts are on the rise, in some instances comparable to those during the first wave of infections. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Three weeks ago hospital admissions were 4,900. There are three areas of the country that account for most of these new infections. These are Nelson Mandela Bay and the Sarah Baartman District in the Eastern Cape and the Garden Route District in the Western Cape. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Yesterday, South Africa recorded over 4,400 new infections, the largest daily increase in infections since the middle of August. The total number of hospital admissions is now over 5,800 nationally and is increasing. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
There has been a marked rise in new infections and an increase in the no. of people being admitted to hospital. In the first week of November, we were recording an average of 1,500 new cases a day. By the last week of November, this had almost doubled to around 2,900 new cases. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
For nearly 100 days, since the middle of August, we managed to keep the rate of new infections stable, at below 2,000 new cases a day. However, that has changed in the last three weeks. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
A total of 800,872 people are confirmed to have been infected by the virus in South Africa since March. Around 92 per cent of these people have recovered. This is good news. As of today, 21,803 people are known to have died from COVID-19 in South Africa. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
There is now clear evidence of a resurgence of infections in parts of our own country, which, if not confronted decisively and directly, could lead to great suffering and death. This pandemic has already taken a heavy toll on our country. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
And yet, despite the progress we have made, we have always known that a second wave of infections is possible in South Africa if we do not take the necessary measures to protect ourselves and those around us. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Where South Africa once had the fifth highest number of infections in the world, we have now fallen to 14th in the world as infections in other countries have surged dramatically. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We have seen many countries around the world experience a resurgence of the coronavirus, some with second waves even worse than their initial peak. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The global pandemic continues to cause devastation across the world, with more than 64 million infections and nearly one-and-a-half million confirmed deaths. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As we remember them, let us pledge that we will do everything within our means to contain these two pandemics and save lives. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Before doing so, I wish to express my appreciation to all South Africans who observed the five days of mourning from the 25th to the 29th of November for those who have lost their lives to COVID-19 and gender-based violence and femicide. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
My fellow South Africans, I wish to speak to you this evening about the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Progress in the National effort to contain the #COVID19 pandemic https://t.co/wlysBi5ufZ — PolitiTweet.org
