President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet has announced updated level 1 lockdown rules for South Africa.
In a statement on Monday evening , the presidency said that the new rules had been agreed to in a special cabinet meeting held during the day.
This follows earlier meetings of the National Coronavirus Command Council and the President’s Coordinating Council which received updates on the management of Covid-19 in South Africa. “The information gathered through the system used by the Department of Health has reported that South Africa has exited the fourth wave nationally,” it said.
Based on the trajectory of the pandemic and the levels of vaccination in the country, Cabinet has decided to make the following changes to Adjusted Alert Level 1 with immediate effect:If you test positive with symptoms, the isolation period has been reduced from 10 to 7 days;“The rationale for these amendments is informed by the proportion of people with immunity to Covid-19 which has risen substantially, exceeding 60-80% in several serosurveys,” the presidency said.
The ministers of Health and Basic Education will in the coming days issue directives reflecting on this new approach, the presidency said.“We also remind those who are yet to get vaccinated to go for their Covid-19 vaccination and continue observing basic health protocols to prevent the transmission of the virus.”A special Cabinet meeting held today, 31 January 2022, has approved changes to the Adjusted Alert Level 1 COVID-19 regulations.
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