By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 20h00 today, Sunday, 28 November 2021, on developments in the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ramaphosa is considering establishing a task team to look into the issue of mandatory vaccinations and the exclusion of the non-vaccinated.
The country was to remain on alert Level 1 with no major adjustment or changes to restrictions.
Efforts were also underway to ensure safe and effective border management, and a negative test would be an entry requirement.
The government also hoped to ramp up its communication strategy, particularly on behaviour change, in a bid to increase the uptake of Covid-19 vaccinations.
Part of the government’s message would be to re-emphasise non-pharmaceutical interventions such as mask wearing, sanitising, hand washing, hygiene, outside activity, and limiting large crowds.
There would also be ongoing consultation and regular engagement on workplace measures
Other proposals included engaging the World Health Organisation on how variants were dealt with and not having a knee-jerk approach.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 2,858 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,961,406. This increase represents a 9.8% positivity rate.
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (81%), followed Western Cape accounting for 5%. KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 4%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 3% respectively; Limpopo accounted for 2%; and Eastern Cape, Free State and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% respectively of today’s new cases.
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 9.8% which higher than yesterday (9.2%). The 7-day average is 6.1% today, which is higher than yesterday (5.2%).
NICD said a further 6 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 89,797 to date.
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