SA Lockdown: No changes to restrictions on personal movement in level 3

There will be no changes to restrictions on personal movement in level 3. Citizens are still expected to remain at home unless they are travelling for work or to obtain essential goods. However, exercise is no longer restricted to a three-hour window each day and is now allowed at any time. Social distancing is still applied to all public spaces.

A breakdown of the regulations regarding personal movement follows:

• Interprovincial travel is not permitted except to return to work with proof of employment, in exceptional circumstances such as funerals (with approval) or essential services.

• Stay at home, other than essential travel for work and to purchase essential goods.

• No recreational travel or to meet friends or family.

• Mandatory use of cloth masks (including home-made ones to cover nose and mouth) and ensure hand hygiene when in public and at workplace.

• Emergencies for medical reasons.

• Those who have an exemption to travel for funerals.

• South Africans returning home and foreign nationals leaving South Africa.

• Elderly and persons with co-morbidities are encouraged to self-isolate and only leave home for exceptional reasons.

• Social distancing (2m away from other people) to be applied in public when shopping and visiting health facilities (pharmacies, clinics etc.)

• Walking, jogging and cycling permitted.

• Social distancing when using public and private transport, as per transport guidelines.

• All public gatherings are prohibited.

• Stores to ensure that there is temperature screening of patrons, hand sanitisers available and measures to facilitate social distancing. Where the number of customers cannot be accommodated at once, measures such a ticket system and defined limit of time in the store per customer should be implemented instead of the physical queuing of customers.

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