South Africa will move into the lowest ‘alert level-1’ lockdown from Monday, further relaxing restrictions on movement, economic activities and gatherings, after a “dramatic” decline in COVID-19 cases over eight weeks. ‘Alert level-1’ is the lowest of five levels of lockdown, which was imposed almost a year ago following the outbreak of the coronavirus that has infected over 1.5 million people and claimed nearly 50,000 lives in the country.