Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has tabled a supplementary budget on Wednesday afternoon as the country’s response to Covid-19 pandemic including a boost for local health. Mboweni says the reviewed budget aims to adjusted budget sets out “a roadmap to stabilise debt, by improving our spending patterns, and creating a foundation for economic revival.” Healthcare spending The minister announced a proposed R21.5 billion for Covid‐19‐related health care spending programme. It also proposes a further allocation of R12.6 billion to services fighting the pandemic. The minister says that these allocations had been informed by epidemiological modelling from the national health sector Covid‐19 and the country’s experiences over the past 100 days. He added that the part of the money will go towards increased screening and testing. Furthermore, in preparation of the “expected peak in infections”, Mboweni says Covid-19 bed capacity has been increased and now amounted to more than 27 000 beds