Zweli Mkhize

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prevent A week in South Africa at the country-wide lockdown, the spread of the Corona Virus, and it is tempting, dangerously tempting to breathe a sigh of relief.

After All , look how much you have already achieved. More Than 47,000 people were tested and 67 mobile testing units were organized.

There are even drive-through checkpoints. Soon the country will be able to test 30,000 people Every Day . Until today, only Five Deaths from The Virus have been confirmed. Around 1,400 have tested positive for Covid-19.

'Formidable leadership'

South Africa have acted seems to be the faster, more efficient and ruthless than in many other countries around The World .

Security officials were accused of Brutal in the enforcement of the lockdown

Heading The Fight against Covid-19, - President Cyril Ramaphosa has established themselves as a formidable leader, compassionate, but is taken from The Urgency of The Moment and don't waste time on the imposition of harsh restrictive steps and galvanize critical support from the Private Sector .

And a rung below The President , Minister for health, Zweli Mkhize also has praise for his no-nonsense, power-Packed performance, and its sober collected in the vicinity of the universal, deeply competent, daily briefings.

Getty what We Are experiencing is The Calm before a severe and devastating storm" Zweli Mkhize
South Africa ' s Health Minister

of course There were errors, and worse. The Police and the army have, at times, acted in a thuggish give up in their efforts to enforce the three-week-long lockout, humiliate, beat, and even shooting civilians on The Streets of the economic metropolis of Johannesburg and elsewhere.

There has been confusion about some of the rules, a clumsy messaging and U-turns by some of the country's less impressive Minister.

Above all, it has The Fight for social distancing and effective hygiene in South Africa to impose on the poorest, most crowded neighborhoods, where many fear That The Virus could be devastating, however.

But they have led The South Africans to mark their first week under one of the strictest lock anywhere in The World - no jogging outside, no sale of alcohol or cigarettes, without the dog to walk, without having to leave the house, except for necessary travel, and jail or large fines for breaking the law - There 's an argument to be made That a government is attacked so often as corrupt and inefficient, and the Private Sector as often seen as aloof and greedy, to make climbing, which is widely the biggest challenge in this young democracy-awaited has ever seen.

It is fitting, That The Man is now loudly warning The Nation against any hint of self-satisfaction - in fact, about the deep dangers of such indifference to the health Minister of the self.

South Africa has done The Most Tests in Africa for Covid-19

"What We Are witnessing is The Calm before a severe and devastating storm," said Dr Mkhize, in earnest, on Wednesday, the official Start of a new batch of mobile laboratories.

"unless we move quickly, we will soon be overrun. There is also no further warning, therefore, before the beat rises in us.

"It is said no time to prepare, what we have in place in The Next Seven Days ," Dr Mkhize, noting That The Virus has already started spreading in the country and That "We Are not a true picture of the size of The Problem ".

In other words, for all South Africa early steps is impressive, The Real battle lies ahead and The Real test for the Health System of the country has not yet begun.

Getty planning for risk

Fluseason will begin to be flooded in The Next month

hospital sand clinics,

fertile ground for the spread of coronavirus

Send more teams the test quickly in the municipalities Covid-19

build treatment centers for Covid-19 patients in every city

doctors from China and Cuba to help

source: South Africa ' s health Ministry,

since it is one of The World 's most unequal societies, it is already clear That The Battle will be fought, lost or won, in the Land of the poorest municipalities.

'disarray and incompetence'

It is also clear That - for all the impressive, the quality of leadership available in the highest levels of The South African state, the government and the Private Sector - years of cronyism, corruption and economic stagnation, important institutions have been damaged.

"We Are not well prepared and positioned itself as a country... after a decade of erosion of state institutions," admitted Adrian Enthoven, a prominent business man now helps lead you to Set Up a solidarity Fund to collect and manage private contributions in The Fight against the coronavirus.

"We were, We Are in a much stronger position in the global financial Crisis [in 2008] than it is today. "

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the same concerns offices shall apply to the provincial health, sometimes led by incompetent political employees.

"The doctors are always on with him. But the senior management is overwhelmed. It is always a shambles. They are provided especially for management. There is no leadership capacity. You are completely overwhelmed and very, very anti any form of cooperation with the Private Sector ," said a senior figure in a provincial Department That spoke to me on condition of anonymity.

A walk through The Township of Alexandra, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, is a further sobering reminder of how difficult it may prove to contain The Virus .

Despite the new presence of army patrols, constant messaging through social distancing in the media, pick-up trucks duty-free hand-sanitizer, and the rapid intervention of the testing units are trying to track those at risk could be The First confirmed case, The Dirt of The Streets and narrow streets remain crowded with children playing football and friends to take a walk to visit each other.

Informal traders, who ignored the lockdown had their goods seized

There are concerns about The Virus in Alexandra, but for now, this feels sidelined by the more pressing issues of lost jobs, priceless food, and the proximity of the impossibility to isolate yourself or your family for a longer period of time, when at home, a single room with no running water or toilet.

has The Virus is already in South Africa , the systemic Challenges and its long-lasting Inequalities in sharp relief.

But a sudden, Extreme Crisis - Like A War or a similar Emergency , the exciting possibility of a Radical Change , through the forging of new alliances, to disrupt broken systems and patterns, resulting in poor leadership in the hardest Way , and bring The Most talented and dynamic people in the foreground.

Some of these changes are already underway.

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Source of news: bbc.com