Ramaphosa moves SA to lockdown level 1
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Covid-19 developments. Picture: GCIS
The move will offer some relief to industries hard hit by the government’s stop-start restrictions, which have hit the tourism, hospitality and liquor industries particularly hard. “Our greatest priority is to ensure the economy recovers as quickly as possible. The only way we can do this is if more South Africans choose to get vaccinated more quickly,” he said in a national address. He urged people to take advantage of the government’s new weekend vaccination campaign, which kicks off on Friday.
The country exited its third wave on Sunday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, and by Thursday, the test positivity rate stood at 4.1%, down from a peak of 30% in early July. On September 29, the seven-day moving average of new daily recorded cases was 1,370, down from a peak of almost 20,000 on July 8, according to Our World in Data.
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