Thread by @DrZweliMkhize

#ZweliMkhize:We salute you as healthcare workers, we do appreciate you and your contribution to the nation #Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize: Model projections indicate that while the epidemic is predicted to peak nationally at a similar time to the previously projected optimistic curve (that is mid-August), it does so at a lower level.#Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize This means that fewer people were infected in May and June than was previously predicted even under the optimistic scenario.#Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize: The Dept. is working with the National Treasury and partners to conduct an audit of the oxygen reticulation infrastructure in all our hospitals. These audits are being conducted with a priority focus on the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.#Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize: its no longer a matter of announcing numbers of confirmed cases. We are now at a point where it’s our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, close friend and comrade that are infected. #Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize: As a country and the world at large, we are now in this reality where we must live with knowing that some of us cannot even bury our loved ones because of restrictions or even because we ourselves have been exposed. #Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize: This pandemic that is attacking us globally, will cause us lifetime scars. It steals from us, from some, lives, others jobs, others businesses. It spares no race, no gender or social class. #Parliament08July

#ZweliMkhize: As a nation we have every reason to be united in this fight against #COVID19. As government, we have said, we cannot fight this #COVID19 enemy alone. We need all political parties, social partners and every citizen to come on board. #Parliament08July