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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.

Eastern Cape police have arrested three suspects for allegedly forcing a woman in Adelaide to insert her bank card into an ATM to clone it. The men, aged between 30 and 38, then fled in a red Datsun sedan in the direction of Bedford.

A fourth truck has been torched as irate residents continue to take to the streets in a service delivery protest in the N2 vicinity of the Markman Industrial area near Motherwell in Port Elizabeth. Police Captain, Andre Beetge, says the situation remains volatile, but no arrests have been made.

A Port Elizabeth teenager has been arrested in the city's northern areas for being in possession of a firearm reported stolen in Walmer in January.

Health officials in the Eastern Cape are waiting for the Covid-19 test results of three people from the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality who recently travelled to Sweden. EC Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba spoke on Algoa FM on Friday morning.

A brother and his sister from Mossel Bay died in a freak accident when they allegedly fell out of their golf cart this week. The accident happened at a local golf estate on Wednesday.

Protesters torched two trucks during a service delivery protest on the N-2 in the vicinity of Markman Industrial Area near Motherwell in Port Elizabeth on Thursday night.

A couple from Knysna who tested positive for coronavirus and now under self-isolation for 21 days has spoken about the difficulty in facing up to the deadly virus. Peter and Candice Myers had recently returned from a trip to Switzerland.

An Eastern Cape man who allegedly helped his friends to escape from police custody earlier this month has been arrested. The four suspects escaped on their way back from the Whittlesea police station.