Nedlac backs mandatory Covid-19 jabs and restricting the unvaccinated from public events

The story: The National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) has thrown its support behind restricting public gatherings to vaccinated persons, and businesses only allowing vaccinated employees to access their place of work.

The detials: Nedlac executive director Lisa Seftel announced this at the council twenty-sixth annual national summit on Tuesday morning. Her address comes as the country has been plunged into a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic with cases surging due to the new Omicron variant.

The background: While President Cyril Ramaphosa maintained lockdown Level 1 during his last update to the country, government has been considering the possibility and modalities around vaccination mandates, while South Africans are also expecting lockdown restrictions to be tightened.