There will now be a window of just seven working days between the end of a comment period for new regulations, and the automatic end of holdover disaster rules.
Health minister Joe Phaahla on Thursday extended the comment period on draft regulations around notifiable diseases to 24 April.
On 4 May, the remaining rules under the now-ended national state of disaster – including on masks – will automatically lapse.For more storiesSouth Africans now have until 24 April, rather than this Easter Friday, the 15th, to comment on new health regulations due to replace the Covid-19 rules that made masks mandatory.
Phaahla published the draft version of long-term health rules in mid March, with a 30-day comment period, now extended to 40 days in total. Those rules propose using the considerable existing powers granted to the minister of health to deal with serious diseases to make rules for Covid-19, or any future disease spread by aerosols and declared a pandemic. Among those new rules are replicas of lockdown rules, such as a requirement for businesses to provide hand sanitiser at their entrances, the demand for proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test to enter South Africa, and the mask mandate.
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