Galane Gold Ltd. has acted swiftly to put precautions in place to manage the risk of COVID-19 to staff, the Company, contractors, the local communities, and all other stakeholders. The Company has had no reported cases of COVID-19 at either of projects and continue to ensure that operations follow the latest professional guidance. The announcement by the Republic of South Africa that all mines must be put on care and maintenance means that starting Friday this week, production at Galaxy operations will temporarily cease. It will instigate care and maintenance in a way that allows to restart operations almost immediately once are advised by the government that can do so. It will also put controls in place to retain funds to initiate the re-start. The government of South Africa announced that the decreed lockdown is scheduled until April 16, 2020, and do not foresee at this point that it will have a material long term effect on operations. The South Africa lockdown will also affect Mupane operations in Botswana, as the majority of its critical supplies are sourced from South Africa. The company had already commenced increasing stores in anticipation of such an action and predict that have sufficient stocks to maintain operations until the end of April. and are also working closely with the government of the Republic of Botswana to identify which of imported supplies are critical so that they can be continued to be shipped from South Africa if there is an urgent requirement. This currently means that if the lockdown finishes as anticipated, and have sufficient supplies to continue operations.