News24 reports that according to Health Minister Joe Phaahla, regulations that could end the national state of disaster could be placed before the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) by next week.

He was addressed the media on Thursday in response to President Cyril Ramaphosa's recent State of the Nation Address (SONA). In his address, Ramaphosa had said the national state of disaster would end "soon", without giving specific timelines. Phaahla said various departments were working on the way forward and indicated as follows: "The National Department of Health is leading in that regard. We are working on our health regulations, making sure we can have, you know, protection measures, through the National Health Act and its regulations to replace the state of disaster, the Disaster Management Act. We are almost at the tail-end to finalise this matter." He added that the regulations would "hopefully" be reported to the NCCC by next week. They would involve: the surveillance and the control of notifiable medical conditions; public health measures in points of entry; management of human remains; and environmental health.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jan Gerber at News24

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