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LOCKDOWN GUIDELINES THURSDAY 26 MARCH - THURSDAY 16 APRIL,2020 P A R L I A M E N T .

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Z A THE NATION-WIDE LOCKDOWN WILL BE ENACTED IN TERMS OF THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACT AND WILL ENTAIL THE FOLLOWING: • • From midnight on Thursday 26 March until midnight on Thursday 16 April, all South Africans will have to stay at home.
The categories of people who will be exempted from this lockdown are the following: health workers in the public and private sectors, emergency personnel, those in security services – such as the police, traffic officers, military medical personnel, soldiers – and other persons necessary for our response to the pandemic.
It will also include those involved in the production, distribution and supply of food and basic goods, essential banking services, the maintenance of power, water and telecommunications services, laboratory services, and the provision of medical and hygiene products.

A full list of essential personnel will be published.
• • Individuals will not be allowed to leave their homes except under strictly controlled circumstances, such as to seek medical care, buy food, medicine and other supplies or collect a social grant.

Temporary shelters that meet the necessary hygiene standards will be identified for homeless people.

Sites are also being identified for quarantine and self- isolation for people who cannot self-isolate at home.
• All shops and businesses will be closed, except for pharmacies, laboratories, banks, essential financial and payment services, including the JSE, supermarkets, petrol stations and health care providers.

Companies that are essential to the production and transportation of food, basic goods and medical supplies will remain open.

We will publish a full list of the categories of businesses that should remain open.
Companies whose operations require continuous processes such as furnaces, underground mine operations will be required to make arrangements for care and maintenance to avoid damage to their continuous operations.

Firms that are able to continue their operations remotely should do so.

• Provision will be made for essential transport services to continue, including transport for essential staff and for patients who need to be managed elsewhere.
The nation-wide lockdown is necessary to fundamentally disrupt the chain of transmission across society.

I have accordingly directed the South African National Defence Force be deployed to support the South African Police Service in ensuring that the measures we are announcing are implemented.

This nationwide lockdown will be accompanied by a public health management programme which will significantly increase screening, testing, contact tracing and medical management.
Community health teams will focus on expanding screening and testing where people live, focusing first on high density and high- risk areas.

To ensure that hospitals are not overwhelmed, a system will be put in place for ‘centralised patient management’ for severe cases and ‘decentralised primary care’ for mild cases.
Emergency water supplies – using water storage tanks, water tankers, boreholes and communal standpipes – are being provided to informal settlements and rural areas.

A number of additional measures will be implemented with immediate effect to strengthen prevention measures.

Some of those measures are that: • South African citizens and residents arriving from high-risk countries will automatically be placed under quarantine for 14 days.
• Non-South Africans arriving on flights from high-risk countries we prohibited a week ago will be turned back.

• • International flights to Lanseria Airport will be temporarily suspended.

International travellers who arrived in South Africa after 9 March 2020 from high- risk countries will be confined to their hotels until they have completed a 14-day period of quarantine ESSENTIAL GOODS 1.
Food (i) Any food product, including non-alcoholic beverages; (ii) Animal food; and (iii) Chemicals, packaging and ancillary products used in the production of any food product.

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Cleaning and Hygiene Products (i) Toilet Paper, sanitary pads, sanitary tampons, condoms; (ii) Hand sanitiser, disinfectants, soap, alcohol for industrial use, household cleaning products, and personal protective equipment; (iii) Chemicals, packaging and ancillary products used in the production of any of the above; (iv) Products for the care of babies and toddlers; (v) Personal toiletries, including haircare, body and face washes, roll-ons, deodorants, toothpaste.

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Medical (i) Medical and Hospital Supplies, equipment and personal protective equipment; and (ii) Chemicals, packaging and ancillary products used in the production of any of the above.

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Fuel, including coal and gas 5.

Basic goods, including airtime and electricity ESSENTIAL SERVICES 1.

Medical, Health (including Mental Health), Laboratory and Medical services and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases; 2.
Disaster Management, Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Emergency services; 3.

Financial services necessary to maintain the functioning of the banking and payments environment, including the JSE and similar exchanges, as well as Insurance services and medical scheme administration; 4.

Production and sale of the goods listed in category A, above; 5.

Grocery stores, including spaza shops; 6.


Electricity, (including vital demand management services), water, gas and fuel production, supply and maintenance; .

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Critical jobs for essential government services as determined by Head of National or Provincial Departments in accordance with the guidance by the DPSA, including Social Grant Payments; 8.

Birth and death certificates, and replacement identification documents; 9.

Essential municipal services; 10.


Care services and social relief of distress provided to older persons, mentally ill, persons with disabilities, the sick, and children; 11.

Funeral services, including mortuaries 12.

Wildlife Management, Anti-poaching, Animal Care and Veterinary services; 13.

Newspaper, broadcasting and telecommunication infrastructure and services; 14.
Production and sale of any chemicals, hygiene products, pharmaceuticals for the medical or retail sector; 15.

Cleaning, sanitation, sewerage, waste and refuse removal services 16.

Services related to the essential functioning of courts, judicial officers, the Master of the High Court, Sheriffs and legal practitioners required for those services; 17.

Essential SARS services defined by the Commissioner of SARS; 18.
Police, peace officers, traffic officers, military medical personnel and soldiers, correctional services officials and traffic management services; 19.

Postal services and courier services related to transport of medical products; 20.

Private security services; 21.

Air-traffic Navigation, Civil Aviation Authority, Cargo Shipping and dockyard services; 22.

Gold, gold refinery, coal and essential mining; 23.
Accommodation used for persons rendering essential services, quarantine, isolation and the lockdown; 24.

Production, manufacturing, supply, logistics, transport, delivery, critical maintenance and repair in relation to the rendering of essential services including components and equipment 25.

Transport services for persons rendering essential services and goods, and transportation of patients; 26.
Services rendered by the Executive, members of Parliament, Members of the Provincial Legislature, Members of Local Councils, the Judiciary, traditional leaders and National Office Bearers of Political Parties represented in Parliament; 27.

Commissioners of the South African Human Rights Commission, Gender Commission, and the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, and the Public Protector and Deputy Public Protector; 28.
Transport and logistics in respect of essential goods as set out in A above to neighboring countries; 29.

Tow trucks and vehicle recovery services; 30.

Call centers necessary to provide health, safety, social support, government and financial services; 31.

Harvesting and storage activities essential to prevent the waste of primary agricultural goods; 32.
Implementation of payroll systems to the extent that such arrangements have not been made for the lockdown, to ensure timeous payments to workers; and 33.

Critical maintenance services which cannot be deployed for more than 21 days and are essential to resume operations after the lockdown.