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LEVEL 1: HERE WE COME

SETUMO STONE, JUNIOUR KHUMALO, MANDISA NYATHI and VUYO MKIZE news@citypress.co.za

When President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation later this week, it is highly likely that the national lockdown will be eased again, this time to level 1, which will reduce restrictions, but will keep the usual health protocols in place.

However, health and infectious diseases experts have cautioned that we’re not yet out of the woods.

The strongest hint of a lockdown level de-escalation was given by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize earlier this week.

“We didn’t have any increase in the number of cases when moving from level 3 to level 2, which was good news for us because we do want to get to normal activity. We will have to

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