JOHANNESBURG: Locking Locking in South Africa will remain at the lowest level of one of the five-level strategies even though the country that registered the number of records of 26,976 infections in the middle of the fourth wave of Coronavirus, mostly driven by the new Omicron variant, anti-Covid-19 authority announced on Thursday.
Confirm that the country is now strong in the grip of the fourth wave, the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) appealed to South Africa to play a role in avoiding the spread of further viruses through social distance, masks wearing and sanitisation and to avoid large meetings that can be spreaders Super disease.
Anti-Koronavirus authority, in a statement, said that while a new wave, mostly driven by the omicron variant of the virus, spread faster than the previous wave, the level of hospitalization and death remained relatively low.
It is said that the country will remain at the lowest level of one strategy of five levels of restriction of Covid-19 which was introduced to examine the spread of pandemic.
South Africa registered a record 26,976 overnight infection, taking national calculation to 3,231,031, while 54 deaths were reported during the period, with a total death amount to 90,226.
When millions of South Africans began to go to the beach holiday areas and ancestral houses in rural areas for holidays that began on a holiday of public reconciliation on Thursday, Health Minister Joe Phaahla also made a special application to be implemented.
“We call all travelers, especially those who are not vaccinated or some vaccinated from the areas declared hotspots, to vaccinate before the way to protect their family and friends, they will visit during this period related to their social and marriage meetings, who can ‘Super Spreader’ events that bring a big risk of viral transmission, “said Phaahla.
The main output will be from the economic center of Gauteng Province, where many factories and businesses are closed on Wednesday for traditional breaks until early January 2022.
Less than a month after South African scientists first announced the discovery of the omicron variant, NiCD (National Institute for Infectious Diseases) That evidence so far shows that variants may be lighter than their predecessors and can also cause less hospitalization and death rather than the previous wave.
The South African travel industry, meanwhile, has carefully welcomed the lift ban ban by the British, which he overtime in several hours of the Omicron variant was announced.
However, travel agents say it might be a little late, because most tourists from England, the largest vacation market in South Africa during the current summer months, have canceled their bookings amid concerns over the current fourth wave and uncertainty about the introduced flight .
President Cyril Ramaphosa previously criticized the British decision, which was attended by more than 20 other countries, as a “knee-jerk reaction” was not based on scientific evidence.