Level 2 lockdown: President Cyril Ramaphosa announce new restrictions for South Africa to contain Coronavirus
South Africa goment don place di kontri on 'Adjusted Alert Level 2' wit effect from Monday, 31 May as cases of coronavirus continue to dey rise for di kontri.
President Cyril Ramaphosa give di announcement wen e dey follow kontri pipo tok on Sunday. E say over di last seven days, di kontri dey witness average of 3,745 daily new infections. End of Twitter post, 1 Under di adjusted level, di new curfew hours go be from 11pm to 4am plus bars, restaurants and fitness centres must dey closed from 10pm. Dis na to allow their employees and patrons fit reach house before di curfew start. Other restrictions include: Cases of coronavirus for South Africa Number of confirmed cases of coronavirus tanda for 1,659,070 and 56,363 pipo don die sake of di virus according to data from John Hopkins University. President Ramaphosa wey express fear of thrid wave of di virus say provinces of Free State, Northern Cape, North West and Gauteng don dey reach di third wave of infections. Na mata of time of time before di whole kontri enta di third wave, e add. He say di number of pipo wey test positive to COVID-19 bin double that of last month from around 4 per cent to more than 11 per cent, even as di kontri don increase testing. Vaccination programmes for South Africa 960,000 pipo for South Africa don collect one dose of vaccine. More than 67 per cent of public health workers don dey vaccinated. Two weeks ago, dem start di second phase of di vaccination programme, wey target di balance of health workers and dos wey dey 60 years and above. Reactions to di new restrictions Plenty reactions don follow di new restrictions wey goment announce as Hashtags Level2lockdown and FamilyMeeting begin dey trend for South Africa social media. As some residents tok say dem no want anoda lockdown, others no see any difference for di new rules.