30/04/2020
Summary of Minister's presentation of Level 4 rules:
-Can exercise outside house (walk / cycle within 5km radius) between 6am and 9am.
- If moving between provinces to work, you can only move ONCE and stay where you are until the end of Level 4
- Important for workplaces to be COVID ready. Employees should be phased in gradually. Companies must have a plan for COVID that is known by all workers
- Borders (sea, land, air) remain closed to people. Open to foods for export / import. Only allowed for people to cross borders when South African returning home - have to be quarantined in designated places for 14 days. Also repatriation allowed for foreign nationals who have been stuck here.
- Recreational visits not allowed
- evictions not allowed
- Transport like buses and rail opened under strict hygiene conditions (for transport of people to work)
- All agricultural products can move to ports to be exported, incl wine, wool
- Recreational places like theatres, nightclubs remain closed
- Restaurants not allowed for sit down, but can deliver food to your home. Takeout allowed by delivery to homes only
- Places where public visit eg jails, hospitals will have controlled conditional visitation with permission
- Alcohol not allowed for sale (can’t distribute home-made liquor). This is is helping to limit crowds and decreasing accidents and injuries in ERs.
- Ci******es and to***co and “Marijuana ” and e-ci******es still NOT allowed for sale (after debate since last briefing) for health reasons (sharing of ci******es, shared saliva, COVID related health reasons)👍
- Businesses - mines supplying Eskom remain open at full capacity as needed; mining allowed at 50% capacity; coal mining allowed at full capacity under strict conditions
- Agriculture allowed
-There will be fines for breaching rules
- Although many people want hairdressers and beauty salons to be open, this is still not allowed due to social distancing problems. Products for manicures, haircare etc are allowed to be sold
- Warm clothes and bedding etc can be sold, as well as heaters
- Fabric for making face masks can be sold
- Technology services and support are allowed, and buying of computers etc so people can work from home
- Postal and courier services permitted
- Media and entertainment online are allowed
- Financial services and business services opened, but encouraged to work from home
- Hotels etc only allowed for quarantine purposes
-Restaurants must close by 8pm (open only for home deliveries)
- Curfew from 8pm to 5am
-Emergency repairs allowed eg plumbers, electricians
- People in private homes looking after children, ill patients allowed
- Live-in staff allowed
- Government services allowed eg birth and death services
- Police and enforcement services open, as well as parliament
- Medical and veterinary services allowed
- Sanitation open. Recycling plants now open and informal recyclers can work
- Social workers and counselors permitted
- Funeral services allowed
- Education (Minister communicated but personally don't agree but there was a list of dates issued) afraid that by opening school(s) the virus might spread even more as we do not know what controls are there at schools to safeguard the kids ie break time what happens social distances and will all kids have masks and carry hand sanitors? This I feel is scary. Because we do not know who is infected as they are not disclosed.
Hope find this in order.
Regards
NH Team