The party says it's exploring all possible avenues, including the legal route, to challenge the decision.

The national state of disaster was declared two years ago as the Covid-19 outbreak that was first detected in China three months earlier rapidly spread around the world. 

It's been extended by another month while government finalises alternative legislation to manage the pandemic is ready. 

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Dr Aslam Dasoo from the Progressive Health Forum says the state of disaster should have fallen away a long time ago.

He says the pandemic is entirely a health department matter.

"It doesn't need the involvement of strenuous government departments or agencies that have very little to add if anything for the management of the pandemic. So we are completely nonplused by this. 

"There is no reason we can see that the extension of the state of disaster will help in anything. If anything, it prevents parliamentary oversight and a small coterie of politicians seem to be able to run things without accountability."  

Meanwhile, Durbanite Joss Potgieter was part of a group of South Africans repatriated from Wuhan, China - the epicentre of the global pandemic. 

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She says she can't believe two years have passed.

Potgieter says she has not been able to return to China because of border restrictions. She's now teaching online from South Africa. 

"It has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I have obviously been working through the trauma that came with leaving so quickly and I still remember packing and thinking, 'Ok well, I'll be back here in probably about four months, so it's ok to leave this' You have friends that became like family that are situated all over the world and you just don't know if you are ever going to see them with what Covid has done."