SA's confirmed Covid-19 cases up 80 to 1,585, Eastern Cape up to 25 Covid19SA 21daysLockdownSA
SA's health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday night that the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country had risen to 1,585.The minister revealed that SA now has a total of 9 confirmed deaths associated with Covid-19.
The minister also said that KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu had confirmed that 11 Covid-19 cases in the province had been linked to St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban and that three of the deceased patients had been admitted at the hospital.As a precaution, the sections of the hospital affected are to be closed and no new patient admissions will be permitted while the department attempts to establish the true extent of the existence of infection in the hospital.
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