{"id":399615,"date":"2020-05-20T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=399615"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:14:24","slug":"south-africa-says-it-doesnt-meet-world-health-organisation-guidelines-to-lift-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/399615\/south-africa-says-it-doesnt-meet-world-health-organisation-guidelines-to-lift-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa says it doesn&#8217;t meet World Health Organisation guidelines to lift lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of new coronavirus infections in South Africa has to slow before the country can lift a nationwide lockdown in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, which has the highest number of confirmed infections on the continent, eased some restrictions on 1 May, almost five weeks after imposing a stringent lockdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-05-19\/south-africa-to-begin-phased-reopening-of-schools-from-june-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schools<\/a> will be allowed to reopen on 1 June.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s case count increased by 767 to 17,200 on Tuesday while the death toll rose by 26 to 312.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s Covid-19 modelling team on Tuesday presented forecasts showing a peak in active cases in early July under the pessimistic scenario, or a peak in early August under the optimistic scenario. Mkhize made his comments during the briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Short-term protections are updated on a weekly basis while long-term projections are due to be updated at the beginning of June.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/399537\/south-africas-district-based-lockdown-as-explained-by-mkhize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa\u2019s district-based lockdown as explained by Mkhize<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of new coronavirus infections in South Africa has to slow before the country can lift a nationwide lockdown in line with World Health Organization guidelines, health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":395687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-399615","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\/399615","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399621,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399615\/revisions\/399621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}