Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)NoticesDirections regarding the Criteria to Guide the Determination of Alert Levels2. Criteria for the determination of Alert Levels |
| (1) | Alert levels determine the level of restrictions to be applied during the national state of disaster. |
| (a) | "Alert Level 1" indicates a low Covid-19 spread with a high health system readiness; |
| (b) | "Alert Level 2" indicates a moderate Covid-19 spread with a high health system readiness; |
| (c) | "Alert Level 3" indicates a moderate Covid-19 spread with a moderate health system readiness; |
| (d) | "Alert Level 4" indicates a moderate to a high Covid-19 spread with a low to moderate health system readiness; |
| (e) | "Alert Level 5" indicates a high Covid-19 spread with a low health system readiness. |
| (3) | The Ministerial Advisory Committee must advise the Minister of Health regarding which Alert Level should be declared nationally, provincially, in a metropolitan area, or a district, when taking into account— |
| (a) | the epidemiological trends of Covid-19 infections; |
| (b) | the health system capacity in a specified area to respond to the disease burden; and |
| (c) | any other factor that would influence the level of infection, hospitalisation and mortality. |
| (4) | Epidemiological trends includes a consideration of the trends in the number of tests done, number of persons screened, number of positive cases, number of recoveries and the demographic profile of the positive cases. |
| (5) | Health system capacity includes a consideration of the number of facilities available to support Covid-19, bed-occupancy levels for the various levels of care, human resource capacity, equipment and related resources. |