ACSA directors today led a group of legislators of the Parliament’s Health Committee that assesses the conditions of the O.R. Tambo international airport in Johannesburg.
The sharpening of actions to stop the entry into South Africa of possible people infected with this epidemic comes after the Thursday announcement of the first imported case detected in this nation, a 38-year-old man who returned to KwaZulu Natal province after visiting Italy.
ACSA spokespersons said that the assessment of facilities began at the Johannesburg airport for being the busiest airport in South Africa, with thousands of passengers on international flights and in the region.
Shortly after confirming this first case, President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to prepare to face COVID-19 and said that the effects of the epidemic will be immense in South Africa, where it already shows negatively in the number of travelers.
The outbreak of this disease started in Wuhan, China’s Hubei province, and that has spread to about 60 countries, is faced in South Africa by the Department of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, bodies the president said they have shown to be prepared to combat this epidemic.
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