The state published draft regulations over the weekend and incorporated feedback and suggestions from the public into how the current lockdown will be relaxed from Friday.
Members of the National Coronavirus Command Council, as led by Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, offered a detailed briefing from Pretoria on the regulations that will be gazetted tomorrow on the Covid-19 level 4 restrictions.
She said they had received more than 800 submissions from the business sector, along with thousands of responses from the general public, and she thanked them for the engagement. The minister said that children would now be allowed to move between parents in co-parenting arrangements.As a general point, people able to work from home would continue to be encouraged to do so.She explained that cycling, running and walking would be allowed, but it would have to be within a 5km radius of one’s home, and not in organised groups. It would only be allowed between 6am and 9am.
Government would further allow for only a once-off movement for people wanting to move from one province to another if they found themselves stuck away from home or their province of work because of the initial lockdown.Dlamini-Zuma then emphasised the need for companies hoping to operate during the epidemic to be “Covid ready” by observing all the guidelines, since if workers started being infected at work, the facility would have to be closed down for deep cleaning and investigation.
A number of submissions were made for the sale of books to be allowed again, especially as there was a plea from publishers for the local industry to be saved, but government appears not to have heeded this and still only allows the sale of magazines and newspapers, but not books.There would be an expansion of licensing, municipal, home affairs, enforcement officers, IEC and other bodies.
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