{"id":486921,"date":"2021-04-30T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=486921"},"modified":"2021-04-30T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:25:54","slug":"government-considering-new-lockdown-rules-for-south-africa-ahead-of-third-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/486921\/government-considering-new-lockdown-rules-for-south-africa-ahead-of-third-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Government considering new lockdown rules for South Africa ahead of third wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic in India has prompted the South African government to consider introducing additional measures in order to stave off a third wave, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-29\/south-africa-considering-additional-virus-curbs-on-india-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Health minister Zweli Mkhize told an online conference that a close eye was being kept on India, which has now the highest Covid-19 infection rate in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenges we have seen in India are very serious,\u201d Mkhize said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received an advisory from the ministerial advisory council that we have to consider some restrictions and we are now going through that,\u201d he said, without giving details.<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa eased coronavirus restrictions in March as the rate of new infections dropped, scrapping most limits on alcohol sales, shortening a night-time curfew and permitting larger public gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 infections in Africa\u2019s most-industrialised economy have fallen from about 22,000 a day in January to fewer than 1,000, even without a large-scale vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday (29 April), South Africa reported 1,086 new cases, taking the total reported to 1,579,536.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths have reached 54,331, while recoveries have climbed to 1,504,426, leaving the country with a balance of 20,779 active cases.\u00a0 The number of Health Care Workers Vaccinated under the Sisonke Protocol to date is 307,591.<\/p>\n<p><em>With Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/486411\/the-businesses-hardest-hit-by-liquidations-in-south-africa-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The businesses hardest-hit by liquidations in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic in India has prompted the South African government to consider introducing additional measures in order to stave off a third wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":384181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-486921","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\/486921","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=486921"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486943,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486921\/revisions\/486943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}