South Africa bans alcohol sales, requires masks in public

JOHANNESBURG: President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday reported another restriction on liquor deals and said veil wearing will be required out in the open after South Africa turned into the landmass' first to record 1,000,000 Covid cases. 

Ramaphosa defended a heap of new measures by a "fast ascent" in contaminations, most by another strain of the infection dreaded to be more infectious. 

He blamed "super-spreader" get-togethers and an "extraordinary absence of carefulness over the occasion period". 

"We have let down our watchman, and sadly we are presently following through on the cost," the president said during a grave broadcast discourse. 

Africa's most noticeably awful hit nation recently restricted liquor deals in Spring when it was doing combating its first flood of diseases. 

Ramaphosa said information demonstrated that "unnecessary liquor utilization" prompts an expansion in injury cases detailed at medical clinics. 

Such confirmations put "a pointless strain on our all around extended general wellbeing offices," he stated, reporting that the new restriction would begin from 12 PM. 

He said that in excess of 41,000 wellbeing laborers have contracted Coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. 

The nation's time limitation will currently begin at 9 pm - from 11 pm beforehand - while unimportant foundations, for example, shops, bars and cafés will close from 8 pm. 

Every single huge social occasion - inside or outside - will be precluded for the following fourteen days, aside from burial services which will be restricted to 50 individuals.