{"id":392375,"date":"2020-04-24T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=392375"},"modified":"2020-04-24T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T07:26:49","slug":"this-map-shows-which-areas-in-south-africa-could-face-harsher-lockdown-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/392375\/this-map-shows-which-areas-in-south-africa-could-face-harsher-lockdown-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"This map shows which areas in South Africa could face harsher lockdown restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa will gradually lift its lockdown restrictions starting from Thursday (30 April).<\/p>\n

As part of this process, government will be adopting a ‘risk-based’ approach with more severely affected areas set to face stricter regulations than areas that don’t have as many coronavirus cases, he said.<\/p>\n

“To ensure that our response to the pandemic can be as precise and targeted as possible, there will be a national level and separate levels for each province, district and metro in the country.”<\/p>\n

To illustrate this point, the Presidency has published a map of the areas which have currently reported the most number of cases across the country.<\/p>\n

While the map does not definitively state that the highlighted areas will face stricter regulations, it does show the stark difference in reported cases across the country.<\/p>\n

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Notably, it appears that the largest number of cases have been reported in specific districts across\u00a0Gauteng, the Western Cape and KZN.<\/p>\n

This aligns with comments<\/a> <\/strong>made\u00a0Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma – one of the key decisionmakers on the country’s lockdown regulations.<\/p>\n

In a parliamentary meeting on Tuesday (21 April), Dlamini-Zuma said that it is unlikely that the lockdown will be eased all at once countrywide, and that there may be \u2018differentiated lockdowns\u2019 in provinces with a high number of coronavirus cases such as Gauteng, KZN, and the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

This means that a district which has had fewer cases or a less likely chance of transmission may have different lockdown rules than a more \u2018high-risk\u2019 area, she said.<\/p>\n

Levels<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As it stands, South Africa is set to move to ‘Level 4’ of restrictions from 30 April.<\/p>\n

The levels, which denote the level of action needed to stop the spread of the virus, are as follows:<\/p>\n