Covid-19 'to affect 80% of E Cape population'

"We welcome the report from the department of health, which details its operations for screening, testing, quarantine and isolation of people with the virus," Mabuyane said.

Twenty-nine people have died from the Covid-19 in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro with 18 deaths recorded in the OR Tambo district, 14 in the Chris Hani district, 12 in Buffalo City, four in the Amathole district, four in Sarah Baartman and one in the Joe Gqabi district municipality.

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