英国广播公司（BBC）报道，南非一家法院发现政府施加的一些新冠病毒封锁规定“违宪且无效”。

首都比勒陀利亚的高等法院裁定，这些措施与降低感染率或限制其传播无关。法官将葬礼、非正式人工和多项运动的相关规定定义为“不合理”。

诺曼·戴维斯（Norman Davis）法官辩称，许多南非人被允许长途去参加葬礼却不准通过街头贸易谋生，这是错误的。

南非最初采取了一些世界上限制性最严格的封锁措施，包括禁止烟草销售。

最近取消了一些限制，但是尽管先前有迹象表明也可能放宽了对烟草销售的禁令，但该禁令仍然有效。

英美烟草和国际贸易协会联合会对该限制提出了法律挑战。

目前尚不清楚戴维斯法官的裁决是否也涵盖了烟草。政府有14天的时间对法规进行彻底检查。

South Africa Ordered to Overhaul Lockdown Regulations

A South African court has found some coronavirus lockdown regulations imposed by the government “unconstitutional and invalid,” reports the BBC.

The high court in the capital, Pretoria, ruled that the measures were not connected to slowing the rate of infection or limiting its spread. The judge described rules around funerals, informal workers and amount of exercise as “irrational.”

Judge Norman Davis argued it was wrong to allow people to travel to attend funerals but not to earn their livelihoods by street trading, as many South Africans do.

South Africa initially had some of the world’s most restrictive lockdown measures, including a ban on tobacco sales.

Some restrictions were recently lifted but the ban on tobacco sales remains in place despite earlier indications that it, too, might be eased.

British American Tobacco and The Federation of International Trade Associations have mounted a legal challenge to the restrictions.

It was unclear if Judge Davis’ ruling also covered tobacco. The government was given 14 days to overhaul the regulations.