As I indicated in the National Assembly on 18 June 2020, in determining the appropriate response to the global coronavirus pandemic, government has been informed by the advice of scientists, by the experiences of other countries and from the guidance of the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
In planning its health response, government has made use of the work of the South African COVID-19 Modelling Consortium (SACMC). This is a group of researchers from academic, non-profit and government institutions coordinated by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
The SACMC has to date publicly released the following reports:
The reports are available at:
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/covid-19/surveillance-reports.
Ithas also made the model codepublicly available at: