SAMA: SA needs tighter Covid restrictions over weekends
The South
African Medical Association (SAMA) has called for tighter lockdown restrictions
as parts of the country brace for a third wave of Covid-19.
The countryhas just passed the grim milestone 57 000 deaths and new cases have pushed our positivity rate up to 14.2 percent.
SAMA chairperson, Dr Angelique Coetzee, says to mitigate the spread of the virus, lockdown measures need to be tightened and we need a stricter curfew, especially over weekends.
"We are urging that the Department of Health to loom at weekends especially, people don't listen."
The countrywas placed on Alert Level Two last week.
Coetzee many people are catching Covid over the weekends.
"So we don't have a problem with socialising, we can socialise but we need to do it responsibly.
"If you socialise and there is more than the average number that's been allocated to that closed space and you are not wearing your mask - because you are eating and drinking and the doors are closed - you will spread the virus."
