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The spread of coronavirus continues in the Western Cape. On Tuesday evening, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize confirmed 23 new infections in South Africa bringing the total to 85.

Most shocking is a two-year-old patient who is from the Western Cape region. Of the 23 new cases, eight of them are local transmissions, meaning that they contracted the virus from someone in South Africa, and not while traveling abroad as has been the case with all the other confirmed patients.

The new cases are as follows:

Gauteng – 14

  • A 45 year old male who had travelled to Belgium, UK , France and the US
  • A 37 year old male who had travelled to the UK
  • A 54 year old female who had travelled to the USA
  • A 52 year old male who had travelled to the UK
  • A 25 year old male who travelled to the UK
  • A 52 year old female who had travelled to Italy
  • A 59 year old male who travelled to the UK and Dubai
  • A 57 year old male who travelled to the USA
  • A 60 year old male who travelled to the USA
  • A 37 year old female who travelled to Italy and Dubai
  • A 21 year old female with no international travel history
  • A 34 year old male with no international travel history
  • A 26 year old female with no international travel history
  • A 32 year old female with no international travel history

KwaZulu Natal – 4

  • A 48 year old male who travelled to Dubai
  • A 59 year old female with no international travel history
  • A 5 year old male with no international travel history
  • A 3 year old male with no international travel history

Western Cape – 5

  • A 3 year old male who travelled to the UK
  • A 58 year old male who travelled to the UK and Austria
  • A 2 year old male with no international travel history
  • A 62 year old female who travelled to the UK and Ethiopia
  • A 71 year old female who travelled to the UK

In the Western Cape there has been only one local transmission, which is the two-year-old boy.

Mkhize also announced that all the citizens from Wuhan were tested and their results came 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,” he said.

On Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a state of disaster and implemented several measures to slow down the spread of coronavirus. These included closing schools early, cancelling events with gatherings of more than 100 people, and restricting international visitors and travel.

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