Eight of the new cases are patients with no international travel history.
Mbalula gives update on travel ban amid COVID-19 fears
The Department of Health has also announced that all the South African citizens that were repatriated from Wuhan over the weekend were tested and their results have come back negative for COVID-19. "We continue to keep them in quarantine for the prescribed period and will thereafter initiate the process of reunifying them with the community," said Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.
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