Announcing that the province had recorded 260 infections by 2pm, Winde said the deaths of two Western Cape women were a sombre reminder of the threat posed by the virus.
A soldier hits a man caught drinking on the street in Cape Town on March 27 2020.Far too many people are ignoring the lockdown and their communities will be hardest hit by Covid-19, Western Cape premier Alan Winde said on Friday afternoon.
, and on the first day we have lost two people to the Coronavirus. My sympathies are with their family and friends. Please, we need to adhere to the rules of the lockdown.
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