Gauteng set to move to level 3 in June
Gauteng Premier David Makhura says the province is set to move into level 3 at the start of June.
This comes a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that consultations would get underway to move much of the country to level 3 of the lockdown regulations.
The provincial legislature convened its first ever virtual sitting on Tuesday where Makhura lauded the province’s efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19.
“At the beginning of June we are going to level 3 as Gauteng.
“But Gauteng cannot go to level 3 in a disjointed way. We can’t have one municipality or metro in level 4 and another one in level 3 or another one in level 2, even the districts are highly integrated. We are going into level 3 together.”
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Makhura will be meeting with various stakeholders in the coming days to prepare for level 3.
He adds that as the province prepares for level 3 lockdown, his government will be focusing heavily on screening and testing in townships.
"In the next two months a lot of our testing, tracing and isolating will be in the townships," says Makhura.
South Africa has now has 16 433 known cases of Covid-19 – only 2343 of these are in Gauteng.
The national death toll sits at 286.