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President Cyril Ramaphosa has addressed the nation in another family meeting.
The nation was eagerly anticipating what Ramaphosa would have to say about the Easter period.
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Ramaphosa announced a temporary ban on alcohol sales over the Easter weekend.
Ramaphosa said that the nation is not ready to relax itsCovid-19restrictions over the Easter period.
Easter Weekend
He announced that the country will remain on level one.
President Cyril Ramaphosa made a series of announcements about changes to the Covid-19 restrictions over the Easter period. Photo credit: @GovernmentZASource: Twitter
Alcohol
A temporary ban on alcohol sales will come into effect over the Easter weekend.
the sale of alcohol for off-site consumption will be prohibited from Friday to Monday.
On-site sales will be allowed in restaurants and shebeens until 23:00.
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Religious gatherings
Religious gatherings are restricted to 250 people indoors and 500 outdoors.
Smaller venues cannot exceed 50% of their capacity.
This is an increase in current numbers.
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This will be reviewed in 15 days.
Ramaphosa revealed that more doses of the vaccine have been completed.
Interprovincial travel will be permitted.
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Ramaphosa also listed a number of new vaccines which will be acquired to further help with the roll-out.
Ramaphosa assured that the government will be able to vaccinate enough people to reach herd immunity.
The new vaccine system will allow registrations and will produce a digital vaccination certificate.
to get to receive a vaccination people need to be registered on the system.
Ramaphosa assured the country that the process will be transparent to provide reassurance to the country.
The plant will produce more than 200 million doses for the African continent.
Vodacom will be developing a vaccine rollout platform for the African continent.
Earlier,Briefly.co.zareported that President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the Aspen Pharmacare manufacturing facility in Gqeberha.
The facility will reportedlyproduce around 30 million vaccine dosesfor SouthAfricanext month with roll-out expected in the same month.
Ramaphosa along with Deputy President David Mabuza and others visited the facility to evaluate the vaccine production.
Reports say that the facility has technologically advanced equipment that can be used to manufacture vaccines and others.
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