In an interview with EWN, and reported by Business Tech, Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said that she ‘hopes’ that our country’s borders will be reopened to all foreign tourists before the holiday period commences in December. This speculation by the Minister comes against a background of a dramatic Second Wave spike in Covid-19 infections in many European countries, the UK, and the USA, which is expected to worsen as they face winter.
Whilst the opening of the country’s borders would be a powerful boost to the economy, and maintain the operation of Tourism businesses and their staff, the Government would have to consider the risk of a second wave of the pandemic affecting our country and its citizens.
The Government’s Department of Home Affairs reassesses the Red List of countries every two weeks, based on the countries’ infection case data relative to that of our country. The latest list, published late a week ago, reduced the Red List from 60 to 22 countries.
South Africa reduces list of Red countries for Leisure Tourism to 22, adds Germany!
A Red List update should be issued later this week.
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