There are also plans to extend the curfew from the current 00:00 to 04:00 to 22:00 to 06:00, but business and labour will first be asked for input before these times are finalised.<\/p>\n
Good news for the alcohol industry is that an outright ban on the sale of liquor is unlikely.<\/p>\n
Should there be a surge in hospitalisations, a restriction on the sale of alcohol over weekends could return.<\/p>\n
This report comes as President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to address the nation as the number of Covid-19 cases are rapidly increasing.<\/p>\n
Acting minister in the presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said there was growing concern among Ramaphosa\u2019s cabinet around the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The cabinet has discussed further lockdown measures with health officials and Ramaphosa is expected to reveal measures that government will put in place to curb the spread.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are as cabinet discussing and consulting on the measures to make sure that we protect South Africans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA decision will be taken soon after the consultations and we will announce the date on which the president will hold the family meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Department of Health (DoH) said it recommended further lockdown restrictions in a National Coronavirus Command Council meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
DoH spokesperson Popo Maja said they followed the advice from scientists on South Africa\u2019s Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC).<\/p>\n
He said the department was greatly concerned about the recent rise in Covid-19 cases, especially as parts of the country have already entered a third wave of infections.<\/p>\n
The number of Covid-19 cases has risen sharply over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n In the beginning of April, the number of average Covid-19 daily cases per week was sitting at 789. By the beginning of May, this number increased to 1,548.<\/p>\n Over the following four weeks there was a rapid increase in cases and the average Covid-19 daily cases per week is now 4,574.<\/p>\n There is particular concern about the quick increase in cases in Gauteng, Free State, North West, and Northern Cape.<\/p>\n Professor Adrian Puren from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases said many areas in these provinces are in the midst of a third wave or have not properly exited a second wave.<\/p>\n The chart below, courtesy of Mediahack<\/strong><\/a>, shows the increase in Covid-19 cases per province.<\/p>\n South Africans should expect harsher lockdown rules when President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation about measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":382322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[63397,1952,35,64345],"class_list":["post-399403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-covid-19","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-headline","tag-lockdown-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399421,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399403\/revisions\/399421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Average-daily-positives.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nNow read: Stricter lockdown rules proposed by MAC<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"