It started as a trickle as reports surfaced about holidaymakers returning from abroad and having to go into quarantine but, as the weeks slipped by, it transformed into a virus unleashing a storm across the country.
This is a timeline of how the tentacles of the coronavirus pandemic have spread in South Africa, which has experienced one of the most stringent lockdowns in the world. : Covid-19 is reported in China.: SA records its first Covid-19 case in a 38-year-old man who travelled to Italy with his wife. They were part of a group of people who returned to the country.
We have decided to take urgent and drastic measures to manage the disease, protect the people of our country and reduce the impact of the virus on our society and on our economy.: Covid-19 cases now number 62 in the country. Two of the cases are local transmissions.: Ramaphosa announces the establishment of the national coronavirus command council as the country records 85 cases.: The number of infections jumps to 116 with 14 local transmissions.
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