Medical staff put on PPE at the isolation ward of Ministry of Health Infectious Disease Unit in Juba, South Sudan, on April 24. Photographer: Alex McBride/AFP via Getty Images outh Sudan eased some lockdown restrictions, including constraints on travel and commerce, even as confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased.
Regional flights and road transport will be allowed to resume, the government said in a statement issued after a meeting of President Salva Kiir and his deputies in Juba, the capital, on Thursday. Shops and stores have been directed to open and motorcycle taxis are permitted to carry passengers, provided they and the drivers wear masks. A curfew will be moved three hours later to 10 p.m. from Friday.
The country on Wednesday registered a rise in confirmed cases of Covid-19 to 74, from 58.
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