They are accused of being irrational and overzealous with the lockdown regulations and thus carelessly and even callously destroying the economy. It does seem South Africans feel that we are being hard done by – harder than anywhere else in the world. With very few exceptions, most countries in Europe had some form of hard lockdown that was almost identical to our Level 5 lockdown which started on 23 March. Similarly, South Africa eased its regulations somewhat six weeks after lockdown started and Level 3 was declared after 70 days. In other words, the longer a government took to have a lockdown, the higher the mortality rate ended up being.

Source: News 24 July 29, 2020 03:45 UTC