South Africa Lifts Most COVID-19 Restrictions, Says It May Have Passed Peak of Omicron-Driven Wave

South Africa Lifts Most COVID-19 Restrictions, Says It May Have Passed Peak of Omicron-Driven Wave
Passengers queue to get a PCR test against COVID-19 before traveling on international flights, at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 26, 2021. Sumaya Hisham/Reuters
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The South African government has lifted most restrictions in the country as officials declare the country “may have passed the peak of the fourth wave.”

Restrictions are being removed “[b]ased on the trajectory of the pandemic, the levels of vaccination in the country and the available capacity within the health sector,” according to a government statement from Mondli Gungubele, South Africa’s minister in the presidency.
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