EDITORIAL | Renewed Covid-19 measures need buy-in or we will rue the day

We are on a slippery slope to collapse, so let’s shelve protocol dismissiveness, politicking and power struggles

03 December 2020 - 21:15 By sunday times daily

SA led the way when it announced a hard lockdown before any Covid-19 deaths had been recorded. In March, when President Cyril Ramaphosa caught most South Africans off guard with the unexpected move, experts largely agreed this was the right thing to do. The country was being proactive in trying to prevent the rapid spread of the coronavirus. It was giving its health facilities time to prepare for what was to come. It all made sense. The public bought into it...

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