The President announced a National Lockdown on 23 March, a difficult decision - in whose absence the health, social and economic consequences would have been far worse today.
The declaration enabled our nation to have an integrated and coordinated response to deal with the spread of the Corona virus and set into motion our disaster management mechanism focusing on preventing and reducing the outbreak of the virus.
Government has accordingly decided that beyond Thursday 30 April, we should begin a gradual and phased recovery of economic activity, which will be implemented through a deliberate and cautious approach to the easing of current lockdown restrictions associated with the current level 5 classification as explained by the President on 23 April 2020.
