Durban - South Africa recorded 240 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 virus on Saturday - 38 more than the day before.
And in a new development, the Health Department announced that the Eastern Cape has its first confirmed case of coronavirus.
The person is a 28-year-old woman who had travelled to Germany.
The details of the cases are as follows:
GAUTENG: 16
- A 55-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 26-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 34-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 43-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 61-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 6-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 29-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 45-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 64-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 67-year-old male who travelled to France and Ethiopia
- A 39-year-old male who travelled to the UK
- A 72-year-old female who travelled to Belgium and Netherlands
- A 41-year-old male who travelled to France and Italy
- A 37-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 30-year-old female who travelled to the UK and Netherlands -A male who travelled to France
KWAZULU-NATAL: 3
- A 59-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 68-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 26-year-old female who travelled to the UK and USA
EASTERN CAPE: 1
- A 28 year old female who travelled to Germany
WESTERN CAPE: 18
- A 30-year-old female who travelled to Ireland
- A 57-year-old female who travelled to Germany and Switzerland
- A 55-year-old male who travelled to France and Switzerland
- A 74-year-old female who travelled to the UK
- A 52-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 44-year-old male who travelled to USA
- A 26 year old female who travelled to the UK
- A 57-year-old male who travelled to Spain
- A 36-year-old male who travelled to the UK and France
- A 40-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 52-year-old female who travelled to the UK
- A 48-year-old female who travelled to the UK
- A 39-year-old male who travelled to Ireland
- A 36-year-old male with pending travel history
- A 55-year-old female with pending travel history
- A 35-year-old male who travelled to Austria and Germany
- A 65-year-old female who travelled to the UK
- A 34-year-old male with pending travel history
Source: Department of Health
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