{"id":499181,"date":"2021-06-17T16:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=499181"},"modified":"2021-06-17T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:55:30","slug":"government-updates-level-3-lockdown-rules-for-south-africa-after-mask-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/499181\/government-updates-level-3-lockdown-rules-for-south-africa-after-mask-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Government updates level 3 lockdown rules for South Africa after mask confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has published an amendment to the country&#8217;s level 3 lockdown regulations after confusion around the requirements of wearing masks and children.<\/p>\n<p>The latest gazette, published on Thursday (17 June), states that the wearing of a mask is mandatory when in a public place, <strong>excluding for a child under the age of six.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this had previously been the case, lockdown regulations published earlier this week stated that all South Africans would have to wear a mask &#8211; with no specific proviso made for children.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the regulation remains in place, with South Africans facing a fine or imprisonment for failing to wear a mask in a public space.<\/p>\n<p>The new gazette also clarifies the requirement that banks must have in place under level 3 requirements, which were also previously omitted. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banks must\u00a0\u00a0have hand sanitisers in place at each automated teller machine (ATM);<\/li>\n<li>Banks must take reasonable steps to ensure that people queuing are at least 1.5 metres apart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Move to level 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (15 June), president Cyril Ramaphosa moved the country to a level 3 lockdown to prevent health facilities from being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the priority now is to ensure that there are enough beds and healthcare workers to give the best possible care to those who need it.<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hours of curfew are from 22h00 \u2013 04h00<\/li>\n<li>Non-essential establishments such as bars and fitness centres must close at 21h00<\/li>\n<li>All gatherings will be limited to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors. Where the venue is too small to accommodate appropriate social distancing, 50% of the floor space may be used.<\/li>\n<li>Attendance at funerals and cremation may not exceed 50 people.<\/li>\n<li>Night vigils and after-funeral gatherings remain prohibited.<\/li>\n<li>The sale of alcohol for off-site consumption is permitted between 10h00 \u2013 18h00 from Monday to Thursday.<\/li>\n<li>On-site alcohol consumption may continue until 21h00, subject to liquor licenses.<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol in public is strictly prohibited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Update.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/499151\/south-africa-should-start-registering-people-over-50-for-vaccines-now-premier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa should start registering people over 50 for vaccines now: premier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has published an amendment to the country&#8217;s level 3 lockdown regulations after confusion around the requirements of wearing masks and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":461344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-499181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499181","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=499181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499193,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499181\/revisions\/499193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}