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The Department of Correctional Services and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases have tested 73 officials, following the confirmation of a positive case of COVID-19 at a female correctional facility in the East London Correctional Centre.

Eastern Cape Premier, Lubabalo Mabuyane, called on the people of the province to work together to beat the coronavirus pandemic after the province recorded its first covid19 death.

Eastern Cape Premier, Lubabalo Mabuyane, is mooting a total shutdown in the province in the last week of the 21-day lockdown. This, in a bid to curb the rising number of covid19 cases in the province.

Two teenagers appeared in the Port Elizabeth juvenile Court on Wednesday for allegedly robbing a blind woman in Central.

The SANParks Garden Route National Park has expressed their concern over members of the public who are not adhering to the national lockdown regulations.

The Department of Employment and Labour in the Western Cape acted on a tip-off yesterday that an employer in Mossel Bay had intentionally defied his prohibition notice.

Police members in Komani are urging members of the community to come forward with information to assist them in locating the parents of an abandoned baby.

Nelson Mandela Bay environmental health practitioners, led by deputy speaker of the Eastern Cape legislature, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, were out in full force at the Ziyabuya Shopping Centre, KwaDwesi to sanitise public spaces.

Health authorities will undertake mass screening and testing for covid19 at East London Correctional Centre after an official tested positive for the virus.