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WATCH LIVE | Ministers to flesh out government's plans for Covid-19 lockdown

25 March 2020 - 14:18 By TimesLIVE
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Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola will on Wednesday provide a detailed implementation plan on how the department will handle the 21-day national lockdown.

The lockdown, from midnight on Thursday until April 16, is government's attempt to contain the spread of Covid-19, as the number of cases rise at an alarming rate.

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