A ban on alcohol sales after 11 p.m. has also been ended. South Africa is where the Omicron variant was first detected. New infections fell almost 30 percent last week.
was detected last month, said Thursday that many restrictions, including a night-time curfew, would be lifted after the country overcame its latest wave of infections.
"The curfew will be lifted. There will therefore be no restrictions on the hours of movement of people," the presidency said in a statement."All indicators suggest the country may have passed the peak of the fourth wave at a national level," the statement said. "While the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, there has been lower rates of hospitalization than in previous waves," the statement said."This means that the country has a spare capacity for admission of patients even for routine health services."
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