The 20 land border crossings entering the country will be closed until mid-February, to avoid any “congestion”. Only freight convoys and people traveling for medical reasons or related to their studies will be allowed. The move comes after thousands of people tried to enter South Africa from neighboring Zimbabwe where a new lockdown was put in place. Last weekend, the influx of people wanting to leave Zimbabwe caught immigration officials off guard at the Beitbridge border post, the second largest in South Africa, where angry crowds were stranded in traffic jams, while a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus is responsible for a large majority of new cases, the country of nearly 59 million inhabitants has officially recorded more than 1.2 million cases of contamination including 33,000 deaths. j was registered for January alone. South Africa is expected to receive its first vaccines, one million doses in January and half a million the following month. The government hopes to vaccinate two-thirds of its population by The most industrialized economy on the continent, which is also the African country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, returned to partial containment in December. The sale of alcohol was banned and the port the mask has become mandatory. A curfew is in place from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. All of these measures were extended on Monday, until further notice.
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