{"id":384827,"date":"2020-03-25T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=384827"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T04:54:14","slug":"read-the-final-lockdown-regulations-in-full-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/384827\/read-the-final-lockdown-regulations-in-full-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the final lockdown regulations in full here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this week ordered a 21-day lockdown with severe restrictions on travel and movement \u2013 beginning midnight on Thursday \u2013 to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>And on the eve of the lockdown, the government has published the final regulations that all South Africans will have to adhere to.<\/p>\n<p>The document includes details on which businesses will close down over the period, and which services are considered essential. It also details the restriction of movement<\/p>\n<p>For the period of lockdown: every person is confined to his or her place of residence, unless strictly for the purpose of performing an essential service, obtaining an essential good or service, collecting a social grant, or seeking emergency, life saving, or chronic medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Movement\u00a0 means entering or leaving a place of residence or, in the case of people nor ordinarily resident in the Republic, their place of temporary residence while in the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The lockdown will commence from 23h59 on Thursday 26 March, and is expected to continue for 21 days until 16 April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The full document is embedded below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Final Lockdown Regulations on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/453217585\/Final-Lockdown-Regulations#from_embed\">Final Lockdown Regulations<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View BusinessTech's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/413742166\/BusinessTech#from_embed\">BusinessTech<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_44932\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Final Lockdown Regulations\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/453217585\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-vduNC2VqaDHRCpd90WNF\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7074509803921568\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/384717\/you-cannot-buy-alcohol-or-walk-your-dog-during-coronavirus-lockdown-as-south-africa-introduces-strict-new-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You cannot buy alcohol or walk your dog during coronavirus lockdown as South Africa introduces strict new measures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has published the final lockdown regulations that South Africans will have to adhere to come Thursday, midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":325583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-384827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384855,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384827\/revisions\/384855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}