South Africa ends all pandemic legal curbs

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced that all Covid-19 pandemic legal restrictions would end at midnight, declaring it was time to resume growing the economy.

Ramaphosa said his country, which is the hardest hit on the continent, has seen death rates plunge from an average daily high of 420 in July last year to just 12 in the past week.

Government “decided to terminate the national state of disaster with effect from midn