A medical worker registers information for a patient at the Central Hospital of Wuhan on December 31 2022 as the country experiences a spike in Covid-19 infections.South Africa will adopt a wait-and-see approach before imposing Covid-19 travel restrictions on passengers arriving from China.
Health department spokesperson Foster Mohale said: “There is no immediate plan to impose travel restrictions or special requirements on travellers from China and other parts of the world. However, we are monitoring the surge of cases in China.” De Oliveira said the wave of Covid-19 infections in China seems to be “enormous, some of the epidemiological modelling and news point to millions of daily infections and up to 9,000 daily deaths”.“To me, the reason of low severity of Omicron BA.5is because it's spread in a background of very high population immunity and better clinical knowledge of how to manage Covid-19. China has good vaccine coverage and knowledge on management.
“In summary, we should be alerted of the situation in China and support them to control [it]. We should also doour homework so, in case a new wave starts, it can be managed effectively. We are not in 2019 but end of 2022 and we have the tools knowledge to manage the pandemic.” More than 80% of those living in southwestern Sichuan have been infected, the province's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said.
There should be no bobbing and weaving here they close the country before its too late
The coming in and out of the Chinese foreign nationals should be strictly monitored lest we feel another painful pinch of the Covid variant 🤔😭
By the time we see it will probably be too late
Don't allow them to enter our country
Abahlale khona ize iphele please
Don't Let anyone from china enter our country please 🙏
South Africa always wait for problems to begin
This wait and see approach destroyed many innocent lives 2yr ago
Covid scam again.., lockdown for flu, can you stop flu.., nonsense government just obsessed with controlling people, tsek....
Wait and see is nonsense approach that left us with the highest Covid-19 cases in Africa. We stupid leaders as a country. Why wait whilst you can see danger coming from China 🚮🚮🚮🙆🙆🙆
Ai Ai Ai Ai.... Not this
If roles were reversed, China wouldnt hesitate
This government is going to kill us.
I am seeing plenty of negativety and we are in a new year. Embrace the new and let go of the old. Also don't let covid give you fear. Since it gave people fear last time. Rather fear the Lord and His and everything shall work out for good.
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At very least I hope that they screen all those arriving from China
As always
They want to kill us 😭
They're gambling with our lives.
Welele Evil Lockdown is on the way. Im sure Cyril is smiling.
Oh right - not long ago during Lockdown the army killed a guy for drinking beer in his yard - NDZ wouldn’t let people Zol and kids couldn’t get new underwear - but now we “wait and see” why the double standards 🤷🏽♀️ did the risk magically disappear
We'll be in lock down, immediately. Not learnt anything yet!
Here we go again
Typical ANC reactive about everything
Wait and see how many Sans die before any action taken 👏👏 what a government we have ?
Same approach as with everything else 😂
Wait and see, what?
CyrilRamaphosa HealthZA you are afraid of China. You want the virus to spread again
Sounds like 2019 all over again 🤦♂️
China have the ANC by the Blls, so they're too scared to do anything. Restrictions should absolutely be imposed
RealSavannist NKOS'YAM!!!! CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA GovernmentZA MXM
Ankole and his family covid19 must start with them. 500billion
You finished 500billion nothing you can show. Tsek
🤣🤣🤣COVID? Hayi ninxilile
Useless as expected… they always react than being proactive 🤷🏽♂️
NO FUCKING WAY. That's suicide.
A what ? 🤣🤣🤣
😂 we've seen this movie before
Wait until we have a problem again
This is nonsense so we must wait for Covid to land and start killing before we impose restrictions this government doesn’t care about people. We must put restrictions now to avoid disaster later..
Times live is trying to test the waters
But there's no corona
Wait and see if it infect South Africans ? Dump government we got
How hard is to say you can't come into the country if you have Covid 19? This leaves me baffled... 🤔
Isn’t that just a typical SA stance - wait see. Wait until is broken and see if anyone notices
Typical 👌
Here we go again... just like in 2020.
You either do it or you don't... wait and see is 'don't do anything' as it will be too late by then...
Lol.. We will adapt the NO Lock Down Ever Again Approach. Just so you know CyrilRamaphosa The Media that talk about covid must go Bankrupt ASAP.
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Department of Health SA - Remember the last time you dragged your heels! Didn’t work out so well did it?
Wait and see ? Weeeeee
South Africa will be running around like headless chicken trying to curb covid cases like we always do.
It’s called ‘doing fuck-all’ and SA are the world champions at this, courtesy of the quota system👍
Domkop Ramaphosa at it again
Typical ANC skelms always too little way way way too late..
The wait and see approach in 2020 led us to stage 5 lockdown…
Ban ciggies, flip flops etc. Incompetents. Health dept should visit state hospitals first and focus on sorting those out. Useless.
Wait and see what? Until someone coughs or until someone dies?
Covid is just another fever
Wait and see approach 🤣😂
No don't wait test them now before history treats it's self
Wait and see… he banna 😳
I see chinas zero covid policy has worked out well? It is another flu variant, get on with it.
The officials making this call should not enjoy any special treatment should there be an outbreak as a consequence of this “wait and see” approach.
When it is too late and we are in shit street again.
Welele...
Wait and see approach, so we must wait till millions of South Africans must die for them to close our borders, both GovernmentZA and MYANC is useless
This is the most useless stuff i have read
We have the most ill informed leadership. One that learns nothing from anything.
Mncm
He will soon say, no need to panic everything is under control them boom lockdown.
I just hope the unvaccinated, make the right decision for their sake…like bra Ace M said: you are on your own. Covid19 is not gone, it can still KILL YOU. Your life is in your hands folks VACCINATED
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They like to wait and see.. problem is of course the chinese virus will not be taking a wait & see approach..
Prof Tuliodna is there value in mandatory testing (but no restrictions) on arrivals? From a data collection/variants point of view?
Heban. Again, ignorance? Then they will come here and impose their levels on us, we not gonna obey this time 🤞
On that wait and see DONT even think about the EVIL of Lock down...
Wait and see?🤔 Once pandora's box is open you can't close it.🥴
Wait and see what? Wait and see emergence of new Covid wave?