Johannesburg - The government has yet to determine whether travelling linked to India should be banned, despite outcries from concerned citizens about rising Covid-19 cases in the south-Asian country.
Coronavirus cases have been rising alarmingly in India over the past couple of weeks. As a result, countries such as the US and the UK have banned any form of travel from the country. He added that the Ministerial Advisory Committee has been asked to advise the department on the management of travellers from countries whose rising Covid-19 cases were being driven by variants.
“The knee-jerk reaction of fear is not called for at this point. People should calm down - the minister is correct,” Dasoo said. “It is impractical to try and ban flights. We have weak borders. People can enter from various border posts who might have been to India. The WHO last week said the world had seen as many coronavirus cases reported than it had in the first five months of the pandemic last year, Dasoo said.
Sjoe and you know how long that will take, it should have been done as soon as it started rising in India
South Africa should close all airlines back and forth ..including the rich flying in with their private planes ...we should send some back
& there u hve it-same response as when this pandemic was raging in China & d northern hemisphere.Wait until it has entered &then try shutting the door.I guess d 200 port workers boarding d ship,now quarantined, to manually offload cargo,is indicative of our exemplary controls.
Dragging the feet again. India as a country should be quarantined from the world.