Local government, civil society, religious organisations and community policing forums will be empowered to enforce and monitor compliance with the lockdown.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has explained how provincial districts will be assigned a lockdown level, saying the government has adapted its approach to combating Covid-19 and shifted its focus to be narrower.
On Wednesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation and announced most parts of the country would drop to level 3 on the lockdown scale, while those areas with higher infection rates would remain on level 4.Districts would be sorted according to the average number of cases it had experienced over one week, Mkhize said.
Regulations for each level of lockdown would also be integrated into each of the districts, Mkhize added.As part of the new approach, local government, civil society, religious organisations and community policing forums will be empowered to enforce and monitor compliance with the lockdown.
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