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Lockdown regulations are justified, high court rules

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'I accept that the measures do not satisfy everyone' but they 'have to be weighed against the urgent objective and primary Constitutional duty to save lives,' the judge said.

16 Apr 2020 | Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma updates the nation on regulations pertaining to the extension of the lockdown | Image: Twitter / @governmentza

An application heard in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town on Friday to have government’s lockdown regulations declared invalid was dismissed. This is because the science as demonstrated by the expert affidavit of Professor Abdool Karim is that there is no fail-safe in the use of protocols but it is the only known way of attempting to protect people from having contact with the virus.

 

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