WAITING FOR JOB: Construction worker Mathew Bhodho is queuing with about 200 other job seekers to secure a job for the country’s informal sector on June 24 – after authorities eased several of the corona restrictions. Photo: NIC BOTHMA / EPA
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Due to a hard-hit economy, South Africa opened parts of the community in early June – after two months of severe lockdown.
This has caused the coronation smith in the country to flare up, writes the news agency AP.
South Africa, which has around 57 million inhabitants, accounts for about one third of the confirmed cases of infection in Africa – a continent of about 1.3 billion people.
– We are seeing a rapid increase in the number of positive covid-19 cases, which indicates what we expected, to be approaching a peak in the months of July and August, says the country’s health minister Zwelini Mkhize in a statement, adding that this puts great pressure on rural hospitals, which must increase the capacity to accommodate corona patients.
The country has a total of 138,134 confirmed cases of infection and 2456 deaths on Monday morning.
Health Minister Mkhize also says that they expect the biggest increase in the major cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
– The increase in infection over the past two weeks comes from people returning to work after the restrictions were eased. It is inevitable that infection clusters will arise when the infection spreads from communities to places where people gather, such as mines, factories, taxis and buses.
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A total of over 1.5 million people have been tested, informs the authorities.
Deputy Head of the Norwegian Embassy in Pretoria, Jon-Åge Øyslebø, said in late May to VG that South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa – who was praised for being quick to shut down the community at the end of March – has been under intense pressure lately to release the restrictions.
“Everything from people who sell cigarette and alcohol sales to large industrial companies, airlines and the tourism industry to street vendors and winemakers has been hit financially by the authorities’ sweeping measures to prevent virus spread,” said Øyslebø.
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According to Al Jazeera unemployment in the country was record high in the first quarter of the year, with 30.1 per cent. The economy was already in trouble before the crisis, and unemployment was up 29.1 percent in the last quarter of 2019, according to the country’s official statistics office.
Among young people between the ages of 15 and 34, unemployment is as much as 43.2 per cent.
According to BBC South Africa, despite the corona virus, has recorded fewer deaths than usual during the crisis.
This is because, according to Debbie Bradshaw, professor of epidemiology at the South African Medican Research Council, among other things, that the killing rate was almost halved when alcohol sales were banned.
– At the same time, we also believe that other infectious diseases were affected: We have also seen a decrease in influenza and severe pneumonia, she tells the BBC.
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