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TimesLive reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa says the national coronavirus command council (NCCC) will continue to meet, despite the state of disaster over the pandemic having been lifted.
The council was initiated in March 2020 in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. It consists of several ministers and stakeholders. In his address to the nation at the beginning of the national state of disaster, Ramaphosa said the council would “meet three times a week to co-ordinate all aspects of our extraordinary emergency response”. It made several controversial decisions, including bans on the sale of alcohol and tobacco products. After 750 days, the national state of disaster was lifted in April. However, Ramaphosa said the council would live on. In response to a written parliamentary question, Ramaphosa said the council would remain as a committee within the cabinet. He said the council did not depend on the national state of disaster to exist. “The NCCC continues to perform this function since, although the national state of disaster has been lifted, the Covid-19 pandemic is unfortunately not yet over,” Ramaphosa noted.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kyle Zeeman at BusinessLive
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