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News24 reports that according to Health Minister Joe Phaahla, regulations in terms of the National Health Act to bring the national Covid-19 lockdown to an end should be published in the "next few days" for public comment.
In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on 10 February, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the National State of Disaster would end "soon", without giving specific timelines. Indicating that various departments were working on the way forward, Phaahla said on Wednesday in parliament that his department was working on health regulations containing "protection measures" through the National Health Act and its regulations to replace the National State of Disaster instituted through the Disaster Management Act in 2020. The regulations will involve the surveillance and control of notifiable medical conditions; public health measures at points of entry; management of human remains; and environmental health. Phaahla said the National Health Act would not be amended and they were drafting regulations relating to the act. "The regulations will be made public. They will be published for public comment. It will be in the public in the next few days, in the Government Gazette,” the minister indicated. This would allow the country to "migrate from a disaster managed to a health managed pandemic". Asked whether vaccine mandates or vaccine passports would be part of the changes, Phaahla did not respond, but he did say that the level to which society was opened up would depend on how many people were vaccinated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jan Gerber at News24
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