The past few days have been very challenging for South Africa as the cases and deaths figures from covid-19 escalerted rapidly and this might lead to an extension of the already extended lockdown.

President Cyril Ramaphosa last week extended the lockdown by two weeks indicating that the country is far from meeting the minimum requirements for the lockdown to be ended.

Ramaphosa gave revised conditions that would get him to consider lifting the lockdown.

The following conditions were given:

The lockdown will continue if the daily average positive cases reaches 90 and above.

* The lockdown will continue if the daily positive cases is between 45 and 89.

* The lockdown will continue if the rate of infection is above 0.1%( more than 1 per every 1000 cases).

* The lockdown will be eased if the daily positive cases are less than 45.

* It will be eased if less than 1 per 1000 cases tests positive.

However from where the country currenrly stands, the total number of infections as of today morning (21 April 2020) stands at 3300 up from 3148 which as an increase of 142 new cases and the number of deaths jumps from 54 to 58 an increase of 4.

According to the figures provided by the Department of Health, the past few days have seen the number of confirmed daily positive averaging close to 120 cases daily which is far above the required 45 to 89 cases.

This simply means that there is a huge possibility of a lockdown extension as the figures are continuously sky rocketing daily.

Another terrifying factor is the increase in the number of case within the retail industry which is at a very alarming rate and because those people are involved with the public on a daily basis, this might trigger larger numbers of daily positive cases.