President Cyril Ramaphosa has lifted South Africa’s national state of disaster more than two years after it was first declared in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In an address on Monday evening , Ramaphosa said the introduction of the state of disaster and associated lockdown restrictions were necessary to manage the Covid-19 pandemic effectively.
However, he noted that the state of disaster and its powers were always ‘temporary and limited’, with the country now entering a new phase in the pandemic. While the coronavirus continues to circulate, it is not causing the same number of hospitalisation or deaths. “Since the requirements for the National State of Disaster to be declared in terms of the Disaster Management Act are no longer met, Cabinet has decided to terminate the National State of Disaster with effect from midnight tonight.”
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