Other options to hard lockdown – president

It is now in our hands.

“The NCCC has lost credibility and that is why illicit tobacco is everywhere and people walk around without masks.”

Professor Alex van den Heever, who holds the chair of social security systems administration and management studies at Wits University, said that a more nuanced, smarter strategy was needed rather than a hard lockdown.

“Lockdown tries to freeze people in their houses, what it does not do is deal with the unsafe areas,” he said, explaining that “super spreader sites” had to be identified in communities.

This could be a supermarket, taxis or a site where people congregate.

Reducing the infection rate could come from improving ventilation at a site. Van den Heever pointed out that the simple act of a taxi driving with its windows open to allow the circulation of air would drastically decrease the Covid-19 infection rate.

“Localised lockdown is the wrong language,” says Van den Heever. “It should be localised strategies, that are