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The Eastern Cape Health Department is calling on law enforcement agencies to deal decisively with anyone found to be in contravention of the national state of disaster regulations.

The Department of Health has confirmed the second case of covid-19 in the Eastern Cape.

Three people were killed in a horror three-vehicle collision in the Eastern Cape on Sunday.

Eastern Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga has expressed shock and dismay at yet another cold-blooded killing of a defenceless elderly woman at Idutywa on Friday evening. Preliminary investigations revealed that the 85-year old was asleep alone in her rondavel when she was shot in the upper body.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says beaches and all public amenities are closed from Sunday. It says in a statement new directives are in effect in efforts to ensure that all necessary precautions are taken to ensure that the transmission of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is contained.

A sixth suspect has been arrested in Mpumalanga for killing an 83-year-old granny in Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. Saturday's arrest of the 32-year old man follows after five suspects were arrested in various parts of the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape.

A male student at Fort Hare University has died a week after being hit over the head by another student in a residence at the Alice campus.

A Port Elizabeth nightclub has been fined for selling alcohol after 6 pm in breach of regulations aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.

The Eastern Cape has registered its first positive case of the Covid-19 virus, as the number of confirmed cases in the country rose to 240. This was announced by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases on Saturday.