The Department of Health has opted to suspend Covid-19 screening for truck drivers at Beitbridge border in an attempt to bring order into the chaos.
The queues, stretching over 20km and taking up to nine days to cross, have been making headlines lately.
Department DG Sandile Buthelezi commented that the situation has been confusing for the state:
“Initially they were raising issues that there was a long time being taken in terms of the Covid screening and testing. One thing that was confusing for us was that the main backlog was on the outgoing trucks and we don’t require a test when going out of the country, so we were only doing the temperature screening and filling in the forms.”
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