Title:
South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here’s a blueprint for its replacement
Authors:
Shabir Madhi, Alex van den Heever, David Francis, Imraan Valodia, Martin Veller & Michael Sachs
Published:
The Conversation, 9 April 2020
From the article:
"The public debate on strategies to tackle COVID-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. In fact, economic policy has health consequences. And health policy has economic consequences. The two need to be seen as parts of a coherent whole.
In the case of South Africa, the country currently faces three interrelated problems. These are the public health threat from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic and health effects of the lockdown, and a range of intractable economic problems not directly due to the current pandemic. These include high unemployment, low economic growth and falling per capita income."
To read this article:
https://theconversation.com/south-africa-needs-to-end-the-lockdown-heres-a-blueprint-for-its-replacement-136080