South Africa imposes a set of new coronavirus restrictions, while the country faces a third wave of variant infection that threatens to succeed over the past two.
“We are in the control of a devastating wave that, according to all the indications, is worse than those that preceded it,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday in a mess to the nation. “The peak of this third wave turns out to be superior to two past waves. “
The Delta variant, discovered for the first time in India, turns out to lead to a new building in South Africa, Ramaphosa said. The country registered more than 15,000 new instances of Coronavirus on Sunday, adding 122 deaths, which led its general deaths to almost 60,000.
On Monday, all internal and external manifestations in the country are prohibited. The funeral and cremations will be limited to another 50 people and the commemorative monuments after funeral meetings are forbidden. All non -essential institutions will have to close at 8 p. m. that the existing curfew of the 10 p. m. and 11 p. m. The night curfew will last at nine P. M. , to expire at four a. m. every morning.
Restaurants will limit themselves to taking delivery or delivery dishes. All alcohol sales, for consumption on the site or outside the site, will be suspended.
“Our Ministerial Advisory Committee has indicated that the limited restrictions that we have imposed in the past were not so effective and that a prohibition will facilitate the tension imposed in the hospital through emergency incidents related to alcohol,” Ramaphosa said.
All recreational activities inside and out of the doors The province of Gauteg, which now constitutes about 60% of the new cases in the country, will be prohibited, he said. Visits to nursing houses and other congregants will be limited. Gauteng is the maximum popular province and includes Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Schools and other educational institutions will close early winter holidays, starting Wednesday; Everyone is expected to close on Friday, Ramaphosa said.
The restrictions in position for 14 days, when they will be revalue, said Ramaphosa.
South Africa first returned to more strict measures at the end of May, higher infections in safe regions. Officials have tried to cause a third full wave through the restriction of the actress in social meetings and establish a commercial curfew.
But since then, situations have deteriorated that, Ramaphosa said.
“What we see is that the existing confinement measures are sufficient, are enough to face the speed and infection scale that we live in this third wave,” he said.
By Sunday, the seven-day national average of new instances had already exceeded the peak of the first wave in July and approached the most sensible wave in January, Ramaphosa said. He said it is also conceivable that the third wave could last longer than the first, which was 15 weeks, and the momentum, which persisted for nine weeks.
The resurgence is motivated through the immediate propagation of the Delta variant, which was first detected in India in March and now known in 85 countries, adding five of the provinces of South Africa, Ramaphosa said.
“The evidence we have is that the Delta variant is displacing the beta variant, which has been dominant in our country so far,” Ramaphosa said.
Although the initial knowledge suggests that the variant does not cause a more serious disease than other variants, it is considered to be transmissible twice, which means that more other people are probably becoming health and want hospital treatment, he said. Emerging evidence also indicates that other people in the past inflamed with the beta variant do not have a complete coverage opposite to the Delta variant and can reinflacate, he said. And possibly it would also be more likely to cause diseases in children, their general infection rates remain particularly diminished than those of adults, he said.
“Because it is much more contagious, the measures that we have followed so far to involve the spread of the virus would no longer be enough to reduce transmission,” Ramaphosa said.
Additional restrictions are safeguarding the country’s physical conditioning establishments, where extensive care beds are already rare, he said.
Ramaphosa also asked everyone to continue using masks, who are mandatory in public spaces, and employers will have to allow staff to paint at home and postpone all non -essential meetings and paintings.
The return to the strictest measures occurs when South Africa faces a complaint about its slow deployment of vaccination, which has contributed to resurgence. Ramaphosa said Sunday that the program accelerated quickly, with almost 2. 7 million around 60 million citizens in the country receiving at least one dose.
South Africa won 1. 4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 1. 2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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