Government has relaxed some of the Covid-19 lockdown regulations to allow people to travel outside their home province to attend funerals and to free up the movement of food, medicine and other essential goods from South Africa’s harbours.
lockdown regulations to allow people to travel outside their home province to attend funerals and to free up the movement of food, medicine and other essential goods from South Africa’s harbours to the rest of the country.
At the same time that ministers were announcing the changing regulations, health minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the number of positive tests had grown to 1 462. The department of health would establish a Covid-19 tracing database, using cellular technology, to track people suspected of having come into contact with the virus, to further prevent its spread and assist in the testing and treatment process.
Amendments to the restrictions on ports and harbours will allow for people with life threatening medical conditions to exit or enter South Africa for treatment, while foreign nationals wanting to return to their countries of origin could now do so, provided that their embassy was involved in the evacuation and repatriation process.
Lamola said the tracking of cellphones to help find people who had been exposed to the virus would not end in people being spied on using their phones.
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