South Africa Limits Alcohol Sales, Closes Beaches to Curb Covid
- Number of daily new Covid-19 infections has doubled this month
- Economy is forecast to contract most in nine decades
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South Africa’s government will curb alcohol sales and close some of the nation’s beaches at the height of the summer-holiday season, among a series of new restrictions to rein in surging coronavirus infections.
The government declared the start of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on Dec. 10 as the number of daily new cases doubled this month. The country is fast-approaching 1 million infections, with 866,127 people having contracted the disease so far, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.