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The rules around wearing a mask while driving in South Africa – and the fines you can expect to pay

Magistrates across the country are releasing updated admission of guilt penalties for breaking South Africa’s lockdown regulations, including a number of motoring-specific fines. Of particular importance for motorists, is the failure to ensure your passengers wear masks while in a vehicle. Motorists can be fined as much as R1,000 for breaking this law under the current State of Disaster, said managing director of MasterDrive, Eugene Herbert. Herbert said while Covid-19 […]

today15 August 2020

International News

Americans urged to wear masks outside as coronavirus pandemic worsens

The Trump administration on Thursday looked set to join local officials in advising Americans to wear masks when venturing out during the still-exploding coronavirus pandemic, as the U.S. death toll rose by 1,000 in a single day for the first time. Speaking at a White House briefing, Deborah Birx, a member of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would in […]

today3 April 2020

International News

Saudi Arabia seizes five million hoarded masks as death toll doubles

Saudi authorities have seized more than five million medical masks that were illegally stockpiled amid the coronavirus outbreak, state media has reported, as the death toll in the kingdom doubled. The commerce ministry seized 1.17 million masks from a private store in Hail, northwest of the capital Riyadh, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday. On Wednesday, authorities confiscated more than four million masks stored in a facility in the […]

today30 March 2020

Local

Company issues mask challenge to SA corporates

A Cape Town-based tech distribution company has issued a challenge to corporate South Africa – collectively order one million masks and it will donate 100 000 masks free of charge to the country’s first responders. Syntech is currently in the process of arranging bulk importing of medical protective gear, including masks, as the country goes into a three-week lockdown. The co-founder, Ryan Martin, says many companies with front-facing staff need […]

today27 March 2020

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