There are now 683 Covid-19 deaths to date, 363 of these are men while 320 are women.
People stock up on their favorite drinks at the Pick n Pay north of Johannesburg as the country enters alert Level 3 of the lockdown.Students Jeremy Ives and James Stachen went easy on the batch of beer they bought for the duration of the lockdown, but with the lockdown extentions they too ran out.
A doorman at the liquor store sprayed each customer's hands with disinfectant and made sure that not too many people were in the store at the same time. He said he survived the alcohol ban"through the black market" but did not want to divulge how much money he spent in total. People stock up on their favorite drinks at the Pick n Pay on Nicol bottle store in Johannesburg as the country enters alert Level 3 of the lockdown.Trust Kobe took a day off to be able to buy alcohol on Monday morning. The 22-year-old first when to Nkomo village complex in Atteridgeville, Pretoria but turned back because the queues were too long.
The queue into Tops at Melville moved steadily as shoppers were let in five people at a time. Car guards on the site - who did not want to be named - said that the queue had been this long since before 9am this morning."People are so excited to be standing in the queue to buy alcohol, there is even a nice happy vibe in the air", said one car guard.Durban queues 'just crazy'
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