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Johannesburg – Opposition parties have singled out the government for the third wave of Covid-19 infections.
Sunday evening and as the numbers continue to rise due to the more transferable Delta variant, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the country will move to Adjusted Level 4.
Freedom Front Plus chief Pieter Groenewald said the ANC government must accept full responsibility for the latest wave of Covid-19 infections and the fact that the healthcare system is not ready for it. pandemic, even though he had a year to prepare.
He said the goal of the first restrictions, imposed early last year, was to give the health system time to prepare and build field hospitals.
Field hospitals, which cost millions of rand to build, were not fully utilized during the first and second waves of infections and have since fallen into disuse or have been dismantled. But now, in this time of the current crisis where there is a severe shortage of beds and a need for emergency care, they are needed most.
Groenewald said the government’s intention to vaccinate 70% of citizens by the end of the year was unachievable if less than 4% of the population had been vaccinated to date.
He said businesses, like restaurants and their employees in particular, were paying the price for the government’s incompetence.
DA chief John Steenhuisen said the opposition party had called for a full parliamentary inquiry into the government’s handling of the immunization program.
After spending 15 months in varying levels of containment, South Africans should at least be able to expect universal access to life-saving medical treatment.
But he (the president) and his government have failed to build healthcare capacity to accommodate all who need it. And failed to build capacity for tracking and tracing to isolate the virus and break chains of transmission.
All they delivered were lame excuses and damaging blockages, Steenhuisen said.
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