Health minister Zweli Mkhize on Saturday night revealed that their analysis of the infection rate showed that the virus was still spreading. kgmadisa Covid19SA
He attributed the failure for people to stay at home to a number of factors including boredom, not being directly affected by the virus as well as the need to find means to get food.
“Sometimes people take a long while to adjust to an environment where all they have is just a message and they don’t have their own personal experience about it. But I think it’s going to be something that people will soon be understanding as the messages are getting more and more and they also begin to know of people who are affected,” Mkhize said.The nationwide lockdown has now been in effect for over three weeks and is expected continue until end of April.
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