Acting Prime Minister Themba Masuku has extended the extended COVID-19 partial lockdown measures by two more weeks.

The Acting Prime Minister made the announcement during a press briefing that was held at the Cabinet Offices on Thursday.

The extension of the partial lockdown measures means that alcohol sales, gatherings of any kind, travelling after 8pm among other measures remain banned in the Kingdom of Eswatini.

Among the reasons for the extension of the partial lockdown is the delay on the vaccine roll out which the Prime Minister said was delayed by unforeseen circumstances.

“When we invoked the last extension two weeks ago, we had also hoped that we would have received the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines to start vaccinating our health workers and frontline staff”.

“This process has also been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances but we have intensified our efforts to access the vaccines as soon as practically possible to start the vaccination exercise,” detailed the Acting Prime Minister.

The Acting Prime Minister also highlighted advice by the World Health Organisation where they advised country’s to restrain from loosening measures willy-nilly to avoid uncontrollable infections.