This comes a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that consultations would get underway to move much of the country to level 3 of the lockdown regulations.

The provincial legislature convened its first-ever virtual sitting on Tuesday where Makhura lauded the province’s efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19.

“At the beginning of June, we are going to level 3 as Gauteng.

“But Gauteng cannot go to level 3 in a disjointed way. We can’t have one municipality or metro in level 4 and another one in level 3 or another one in level 2, even the districts are highly integrated. We are going into level 3 together.”

Makhura will be meeting with various stakeholders in the coming days to prepare for level 3.

He adds that as the province prepares for level 3 lockdown, his government will be focusing heavily on screening and testing in townships.

"In the next two months a lot of our testing, tracing and isolating will be in the townships," says Makhura.

South Africa has 16 433 known cases of Covid-19 – only 2 343 of these are in Gauteng.

The national death toll sits at 286.

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