Fikile Mbalula: Taxi passengers must wear masks
Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula has announced amendments to the regulations pertaining to public transport for the remainder of the lockdown.
Speaking in Johannesburg today, he said the number of passengers that vehicles are allowed to carry has been reviewed.
A minibus licensed to carry ten passengers is limited to carry a maximum of seven passengers.
A minibus licensed to carry fifteen passengers is fifteen passengers to carry a maximum of ten passengers.
A minibus permitted to carry twenty-two passengers is limited to carry a maximum of fifteen passengers.
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A vehicle licensed to carry a maximum of four passengers is limited to carry fifty percent of its permissible passenger-carrying capacity.
He says taxi operators may only carry a full load if the following conditions are met.
All passengers will be wearing masks.
These masks must be of the following categories, a surgical mask, and N95 respiratory mask.
Public transport operators are required to adhere to the direction on sanitizing vehicles and put measures in place, give effect to social distancing at all material times.
Mbalula says it is now law that the Midi and Minibus taxis must be sanitised.
