South Africa now has more than 900 confirmed cases of
Covid-19, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday afternoon.
Addressing the media at the SA Reserve Bank following a
virtual meeting of the G20, Ramaphosa said South Africa was the most affected
country in Africa.
“We now have more than 900 people that are infected, as the
minister of health told me, and we fear that it might rise even further than
that,” he said.
The last figure announced on Wednesday by health minister
Dr Zweli Mkhize was 709, with Gauteng being the worst affected.
The country will go into a national lockdown from midnight
for 21 days in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
South Africa's first recorded case of Covid-19, the
respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, was reported on March 5,
when a 38-year-old man from Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, became the first South
African to test positive. Sowetan
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