BL Premium reports that Police Minister Bheki Cele said on Tuesday that police would enforce strict adherence to the two-week, adjusted level 4 lockdown regulations announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday.
This would include enforcing the mandatory wearing of masks in public places, the ban on social gatherings, the prohibition of on- and off-site alcohol sales and the transportation of alcohol except for industrial purposes. Also prohibited is leisure travel to and from Gauteng, which is now the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily roadblocks will check that people entering and leaving Gauteng for work, medical reasons or to attend a funeral have the necessary permits, Cele said at a media briefing attended by various ministers responsible for enforcing the regulations. The military would not be involved in enforcing the law, Cele indicated. The medical corps of the SANDF were only assisting Gauteng with its health crisis. Cele emphasised that mass gatherings were not only prohibited but also criminalised under adjusted alert level 4 and said the organisers of such events would be arrested. He advised that the vaccination of members of SAPS would continue, noting that Covid-19 had claimed the lives of 666 officers.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Linda Ensor at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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