President Cyril Ramaphosa visits Gauteng Coronavirus COVID-19 sites, 24 Apr

President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, 24 April 2020, visit sites identified as COVID-19 facilities in the Gauteng Province.

Accompanied by Premier David Makhura, the President will commence his programme at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, where he will do a walkabout of a hall demarcated as a quarantine or isolation facility for patients.

The President will then proceed to the Johannesburg Central Food Bank in Booysens, which is also used to assist communities in need of food parcels during the coronavirus outbreak.

Government routinely uses food banks across the country to provide social relief to communities. Currently, this service has been intensified as part of the national response to COVID-19.

The programme of the President will conclude at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, one of the hospitals designated to manage COVID-19 cases.

NOTE TO MEDIA: A pool arrangement is in place for the dissemination of the material from the visits. 

Public Enquiries: Presidential Hotline 17737
COVID-19 Specific enquiries: NICD Hotline 0800 0029 999

Media enquiries: Khusela Diko, Spokesperson to the President on media@presidency.gov.za