South Africa’s cabinet has extended the country’s National State of Disaster by yet another month until June 15.
The current state of disaster was meant to expire on Saturday May 15, after it was extended in April.
SABC reports that in a statement, cabinet says the extension is within the terms of Section 27 of the Disaster Management Act – following its meeting over the country’s COVID-19 response and vaccine rollout programme.
This comes a day after Health Minister, Dr. Zweli Mkhize, raised concern over the possibility of the country entering its third wave of infections, despite phase two of the vaccination programme due to kick off on Monday, May 17.
The country has thus far recorded 1,602,759 coronavirus cases and 55,040 deaths.
(With input from SABC)
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