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The capital city made headlines earlier this year when, following a church gathering at the Divine Restoration Ministries in March, at least 67 people tested positive for Covid-19.
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Earlier in the day, Ntombela’s counterpart in Gauteng, David Makhura, said the whole province would move to Level 3 in June, reasoning “we can’t go to Level 3 in a disjoined way”.
City Press earlier reported that the Department of Health believed that those who tested positive had contact with at least 1 600 other people.
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Ntombela further announced that the province had successfully traced 3 302 out of 3 324 contacts.
“The screening and tracing are ongoing as we speak, we are facing this war head-on,” she said.
In addition, the premier announced that the province had 19 834 tests conducted by the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS).
“I wish to thank all the healthcare workers and health practitioners of our province in the forefront of fighting this virus. I sit here proud to say, we are doing well as a province,” she said.
