Wearing of masks compulsory in Tshwane
All visitors to the city’s buildings, including the Tshwane bus service (TBS) and other services will not be permitted to enter without a cloth mask or any form of material covering the chin, mouth and nose.
All people using the Tshwane metro’s facilities will have to wear masks as of 1 May.
The metro announced this week that it will be compulsory for all its customers visiting its buildings or using its transport services to wear cloth masks.
The city’s Compliance Administrator Lebogang Mahaye said this was in line with level 4 Covid-19 lockdown restrictions announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa last Thursday.
“All visitors to the city’s buildings, including the Tshwane bus service (TBS) as well as the A Re Yeng inner city and Mamelodi bus service commuters will not be permitted to enter any of our buildings or board any of our public transport modes without a cloth mask or any form of material covering the chin, mouth and nose,” she said.
Mahaye said the restriction extends to all the city’s venues, offices, bus stops, bus shelters, customer care walk-in centres and bus depots.
“Anyone entering any of our offices, buildings, using our facilities and assets, basically doing any business with the city will be required to wear a cloth mask, and it’s important to wear it properly so that it covers your chin, nose and mouth,” she said.
“This also applies to all the city’s employees.”
She emphasised the need for residents to observe the lockdown restrictions and to continue practicing proper hygiene by washing hands with soap for at least 20 seconds and to use sanitisers with alcohol content of 60% or more to help curb the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
“The virus does not move, it is the people that move the virus. I implore all the residents of Tshwane and those that work and do business in our city to comply with the Covid-19 regulations to help flatten the curve,” she said.
According to the National Department of Health the main benefit of everyone wearing a facemask is to reduce the amount of coronavirus (or Influenza virus) droplets being coughed up by those with the infection and so reducing its spread.
“Since some people with the coronavirus may not have symptoms or may not know they are infected, everyone is compelled to wear a facemask,” Mahaye said.
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