While Western Cape officials welcomed the move to lockdown level 1, they have again called for the end to the lockdown to enable a quick recovery for the economy.
This comes as South Africa has administered more than 17 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with 8.6 million people fully vaccinated.
He said he had been in discussions with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ease that country’s restrictions on travellers to South Africa. City of Cape Town mayor Dan Plato said that while the move to level one to allow the economy to reopen further is welcomed, he said that it is time to end the state of disaster.
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