In view of a fourth wave of infections that has now subsided, South Africa is further relaxing its CoV measures.

The Cape State government has decided that people who have tested positive and have no symptoms will no longer have to be in quarantine. For those with symptoms, the length of isolation has been reduced from ten days to seven days. Anyone who has come close to infected people only has to go into quarantine if they have symptoms. The ORF reports. The easing was justified with studies according to which around 70 percent of the population in South Africa had already been infected.