The Eastern Cape metro area is seen as a hotspot. Health minister Zweli Mkhize has expressed his concern over the rising daily infections in the province. “The Eastern Cape on a daily basis becomes responsible for between 50% and 55% of new positive cases recorded,” he said.
“All our indications on the ground are that the number of positive people has increased — particularly in Nelson Mandela Bay, the number of people who are dying is noted and the number of people who are positive.”
President Ramaphosa has from 12 midnight tonight has put strict covid-19 regulations in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. The President said these changes are not meant to punish residents of the Nelson Mandela but to help prevent more cases of covid-19.
Acting mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Thsonono Buyeye says that the city will welcome tighter restrictions, as it continues to fight against the spread of Covid-19 amid the virus’s resurgence in the province.
While social gatherings remain our major problem, we have not stopped enforcing the law in churches and funerals as those can be super spreaders too. We are urging our residents to stop the spread of the virus, no one else is causing this problem but us. People are dying almost every day and it is in our hands, we could just this once sacrifice everything we are used for the sake of saving people’s lives.
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Another warrant of arrest, not to be enforced until his next scheduled court appearance, has been issued against former Bosasa COO turned whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi.
This after Agrizzi failed to appear in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court sitting in Palm Ridge alongside his co-accused former ANC MP Vincent Smith on Thursday.
Sindisiwe Twala, the spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate, said Agrizzi was not in court because “he is still in the intensive care unit”. learn more
