West Rand mine halts underground operations as 53 miners test positive for Covid-19:
Spokesperson for Gauteng Department of Health Kwarra Kekana said the mine management indicated that all underground miners, 378 of them, were tested for the virus."MEC Bandile Masuku and the Gauteng Health team will meet with the mine management this afternoon, May 24, to receive a report and consolidate the response and management of the cases.
Meanwhile the North West government has ordered the placement of 32 mineworkers into quarantine after two of them tested positive for Covid-19 during a screening and testing process at their workplace at the Setlagole mine outside Mahikeng. Sambatha said all 500 were subjected to screening and testing for the virus but that the results came back and only two tested positive.
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