{"id":398345,"date":"2020-05-14T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=398345"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:59:50","slug":"south-africa-to-ease-corona-virus-restrictions-cautiously-ramaphosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/south-africa-to-ease-corona-virus-restrictions-cautiously-ramaphosa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa to ease corona virus restrictions cautiously: Ramaphosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong> &#8211; South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday he aimed to further ease restrictions imposed to curb the new coronavirus, but places with the most infections likely would remain into June on \u201calert level 4\u201d of a five-level system.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa imposed one of the world\u2019s toughest lockdowns in late March, with restrictions only easing slightly from May 1 when the country moved to a five-level alert system where five represents the most restrictions.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He said in an address to the nation on Wednesday that the strict measures were necessary to improve the readiness of the country\u2019s health facilities and prevent additional deaths. The country moved from level 5 to level 4 on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will therefore continue to proceed cautiously,\u201d he said. \u201cOur goal is to steadily increase economic activity while putting measures in place to reduce the transmission of the virus and provide adequate care for those who become infected and need treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s most industrialised economy has recorded 219 coronavirus deaths, with 12,074 confirmed cases, Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will immediately begin a process of consultation with relevant stakeholders on a proposal that by the end of May, most of the country be placed on alert level 3, but that those parts of the country with the highest rates of infection remain on level 4,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said it was important to maintain stringent restrictions in metropolitan areas, where infections are greatest. Under level 3, more businesses will be allowed to operate and more goods to be sold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG (SONNA) &#8211; South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday he aimed to further ease restrictions imposed to curb the new coronavirus, but places with the most infections likely would remain into June on \u201calert level 4\u201d of a five-level system. Ramaphosa imposed one of the world\u2019s toughest lockdowns in late March, with restrictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398348,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398345\/revisions\/398348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}