The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa eases some Covid restrictions
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In South Africa, overall infections are said to be down twenty per cent as a result of the country's vaccination programme. Also, Australian police have said anti-lockdown protests will no longer be tolerated after thousands of demonstrators in Sydney defied coronavirus restrictions, and one of Bolivia's greatest contemporary artists, Roberto Valcárcel, has died of Covid-19 complications.