Mkhize outlines plans to deal with Eastern Cape virus resurgence
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize is hoping to see COVID-19 infections in the Eastern Cape coming down.
The province has seen a resurgence of the virus.
It has over 8 600 cases - mostly in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.
During a visit to Livingston Hospital in Port Elizabeth, Mkhize outlined several interventions which he said the provincial department must implement.
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"Work out your plans and start interventions and then continue the work that you are doing.
"At the end of the week, you will give us an update, so that we can see, what is it that we can give you additional support on," he said.
In the past day, 73 more people died in the country, taking the number of South Africa's Covid-19 related deaths to 20 314.
Over 1200 news infections were reported.
