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Detectives from the Eastern Cape travelled to Cape Town to arrest a taxi owner who will be charged with issuing fake funeral permits.

The Eastern Cape Health Department said it was intensifying its efforts to arrest the spread of the coronavirus after the province recorded its fifth death related to covid19.

The management of the Woolworths Group has announced that its closed its Woolworths Food Store in the Access Park centre off Buffelsfontein Road, Port Elizabeth, after a second staff member tested positive for the Coronavirus.

Tributes have poured in for well-known East London DJ, Daryn Mildenhall, who has died in a Cape Town hospital.

Two foreign nationals appeared in an Eastern Cape court for allegedly using fake travel documents bearing the signature of Mnquma Municipality Mayor, Sithembiso Ncetezo.

The Eastern Cape Government has urged members of the community to adhere to the current lockdown regulations to curb the spread of COVID19. Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba especially called on bereaved families and communities to stop organizing funerals with large numbers of people.

The Department of Health in the Eastern Cape has doubled their efforts in the Province to test and screen for Covid 19.

Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sindiswa Gomba, has confirmed that Nelson Mandela Bay recorded three deaths as a result of COVID19. The fourth confirmed fatality was a 65-year-old woman from Butterworth who died in East London’s Frere Hospital.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Interim Executive Mayor Thsonono Buyeye says an isolation site is being established in the Metro in order to temporarily look after those affected or infected by COVID 19.