The minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize confirmed in a statement on Saturday that a second case of COVID-19 has now been confirmed in South Africa.
Minister of health Dr Zweli Mkhize has confirmed a second case of the coronavirus in SA.
Mkhize also confirmed that a 39-year-old male South African working in Daegu, South Korea, had also tested positive for Covid-19. He was due to return to SA but had since remained in South Korea. Mkhize said the second patient who tested positive for Covid-19 would immediately be admitted to a public health facility in Gauteng that government had identified as one of the hospitals that were ready to receive Covid-19 positive patients.
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