PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa’s state of disaster will be lifted once other measures to regulate and manage the Covid-19 response are finalised.
In his state of the nation address on Thursday evening, Ramaphosa said that the end to the state of disaster will be finalised once new regulations outside of the Disaster Management Act is finalised.
No specific timeline for ending the state of disaster was given.
He noted that South Africa has now lifted nearly all economic and social restrictions, and that the country was now entering a ‘new phase of the pandemic’.
“Our approach has been informed throughout by the best available scientific evidence, and we have stood out both for the quality of our scientists and for their involvement in every step of our response.
“We are now ready to enter a new phase in our management of the pandemic. It is my
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