{"id":401167,"date":"2020-05-24T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=401167"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:56:44","slug":"south-africans-will-be-able-to-exercise-at-any-time-of-day-from-1-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/401167\/south-africans-will-be-able-to-exercise-at-any-time-of-day-from-1-june\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans will be able to exercise at any time of day from 1 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans will be able to<span class=\"post-text\"> exercise at any time of the day when the country moves to level 3 lockdown next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa will move from alert level 4, to alert level 3 of the national lockdown from 1 June.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">People will be able to exercise at any time during, provided this is not done in groups, the president said.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Alcohol will be sold for home consumption on specified days and under limited hours, the president said, while the sale of tobacco will remain prohibited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa made this announcement on Sunday evening (24 May), as part of an address to the nation on developments in South Africa\u2019s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The government has identified \u201ccoronavirus hotspots\u201d around the country where infections are increasing at a fast pace, which will receive a \u201cdifferentiated approach\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These areas currently are major metros, and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tshwane<\/li>\n<li>Johannesburg<\/li>\n<li>Ekurhuleni<\/li>\n<li>eThekwini<\/li>\n<li>Nelson Mandela Bay<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo City<\/li>\n<li>Cape Town<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several municipal districts in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal have also been identified as coronavirus hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our differentiated approach to curbing the spread of Covid will allow us to address clusters of infections in specific municipalities or districts, ensuring economic activity can resume as safely as possible while protecting public health,&#8221; Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe list of hotspot areas will be reviewed every two weeks, depending on the progression of the virus,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/401097\/22583-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-rise-to-429-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22,583 confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa as deaths rise to 429<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans will be able to exercise at any time of the day when the country moves to level 3 lockdown next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":399943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-401167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401167","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=401167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401215,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401167\/revisions\/401215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}