{"id":428556,"date":"2021-12-30T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=428556"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T19:19:49","slug":"curfew-may-be-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/428556-curfew-may-be-lifted.html","title":{"rendered":"Curfew may be lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is considering lifting a curfew that has been in place since last year aimed at reducing the spread of the coronavirus, Cape Town-based News24 reports, citing well-placed sources.<\/p>\n<p>Curfew hours have varied since they were first enforced in March 2020 and are currently from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The removal of the curfew was discussed at a meeting President Cyril Ramaphosa held with premiers and mayors on Thursday on the state of Covid-19 pandemic, the report said. Health Minister Joe Phaahla was also present.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is currently in a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections fueled by the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Other proposals discussed included increasing indoor social gatherings to 1,000 people from 750.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is considering lifting a curfew that has been in place since last year aimed at reducing the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":350544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[62808,35],"class_list":["post-428556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-coronavirus","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428556"}],"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\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}