Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. Indeed, we are working closely with the issue of modelling. The point we are making is that we need to understand the limitations that are in the models. We can't necessary take everything as it stands. We need to keep a watch on it and see what the worst possible scenarios that are being predicted and also do everything we can to change that trajectory so that whatever in the model need not happen.
We must also salute the religious leaders for the way they have embraced the decision by the Cabinet to lockdown the country where they were willingly were able to participate in a programme to educate communities to refrain from large mass gatherings. That has actually assisted the country to avoid the huge explosion that would have happened in the early days of the infection. For that we are eternally grateful to the churches, mosques, synagogues and all the different faith groups because this is one area that would have been very difficult for us and it has really made a huge contribution in improving the slowing down on the infections.
There will obviously be a number of restrictions that we in our normal daily lives we have to put in place. The first instance we want to acknowledge the role of the various churches of coming forward to offer various constructive suggestions of how we can fight this disease. We take the church and the faith-based community as partners in the fight against COVID-19 particularly to ensure social behavioural change by making sure that every body when you leave your house put on a mask, frequent hand washing, sanitisers and also ensuring a distance in keeping to the limited number of people in a place of worship so that at the end of the day on a day-to-day basis the culture of how we behave we hope that the church and the faith-based organisations will be in the forefront talking to people about what we need to be able to limit the spread of the infection.
From that point of view we will continue to work with the faith-baaed communities and also in the area of social relieve, and area when we utilise some of the facilities if we need to expand facilities into some of the places of worship this is opened and is acceptable. In the way the church and the religious practices are performed there is always an understanding of the spread of the infection with frequent wiping of the tables, the pulpits and so on so that whoever is in a place of worship does not go home having contracted the infection. Thank you very much, Madam Speaker.