News24.com | AS IT HAPPENED | Coronavirus: ‘They must find us willing and ready to help them’ says Mkhize about return of repatriates
2020-03-12 18:00
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The first of three site was bare veld. A place where only tents could be set up.
There should be continuous and proper catering for the returning South Africans.
The area had to be near a landing area.
Taba Nchu seemed a bit small for all the South Africans and was further from a landing area.
The second option was nice but there rooms were few and the landing area was 6 hours away.
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“Under any scenario, the global growth in 2020 will drop below last year’s level, which was 2.9 percent,” IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters. But how far will it fall is “difficult to predict, at this point, obviously, given the uncertainty.”
“It depends, of course, on the spread, the propagation of the outbreak. It depends on the measures taken to respond and how effective they are.”