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signates said:
My wife came in today from the UK via dubai. Flight had less than 100 passengers on board. Not sure how long Emirates will maintain flights to Cape Town as passenger numbers decline. She had four seats all to herself in the flight.

From landing to sitting in the taxi took less than 30 minutes. She was very impressed with their setup and they were very organised. First she had to complete a declaration with address, contact number and recent travel history. Then a body scan and temperature scan. She passed both.

Immigration was fully manned. Normally there would only be about five of the terminals available. Every single one of them were manned. There was also army personnel assisting immigration and sars officials.

Now for two weeks of self quarantine.
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Is the two weeks of self quarantine her own safety precautions or a requirement informed by immigration? Does she have to stay away from you as well or is it a house quarantine?

I arrive on at CT on Tuesday.
 
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Unknown cruise ship anchored off Umhlanga. Appears to be under the flag of the Bermudas. Seems it has been denied port entry to Durban.

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Covid-19 poses problems for social grant payments

Sassa has a plan, but the Black Sash’s response indicates that it comes nowhere close to addressing the problem.
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Payments of social grants at the beginning of April are likely to contravene many of the crowd-related prohibitions introduced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his coronavirus ‘state of disaster’ speech on Sunday.

Experts say the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), which is responsible for distributing social grants to around 18 million beneficiaries on behalf of the Department of Social Development, will not be able to put the necessary measures in place to avoid the usual long queues of pensioners collecting their grants at Shoprite, Spar and Pick n Pay stores in early April.
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If you've ever seen how busy and packed the social grant outlets get, this is quite scary. I wonder how many people can postpone collecting their grant and doing their shopping.
 
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"Our little boy took a #CoronaVirusSA test 96 hours ago. Still no result. Lancet call centre tells me backlog is due to 5,000 samples being tested per *day*. If you weren’t already, it’s time for South Africans to take this thing seriously."

Note, this is likely 5k tests a day from private hospitals, now think about how many untested cases there are in the general poor populace right now.
 
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saffakanera said:
"Our little boy took a #CoronaVirusSA test 96 hours ago. Still no result. Lancet call centre tells me backlog is due to 5,000 samples being tested per *day*. If you weren’t already, it’s time for South Africans to take this thing seriously."

Note, this is likely 5k tests a day from private hospitals, now think about how many untested cases there are in the general poor populace right now.
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And the best part is virtually all of those tests are negative, unless the subjects have traveled recently.
 
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