President Cyril Ramaphosa says travel bans are not yet on the cards for South Africa as the country scrambles to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

South Africa reported its second case of the deadly Covid-19 on Saturday.

The 39-year-old woman had travelled to Italy as part of a group with the first confirmed case.

The second patient has since been isolated at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg.

Speaking in Centurion on Saturday, Ramaphosa said he had confidence in the government’s plan of action.

“The Department of Health is handling this extremely well. If we carry on this way we will be able to contain it.”

“A second case of the deadly coronavirus has been confirmed in South Africa. The patient is a 39-year-old woman from Gauteng who had direct contact with the first positive test from KwaZulu-Natal. Mkhize says the woman was part of the group of 10 people that had travelled to Italy with the 38-year- old man.”

Ramaphosa added that the government would remain transparent on the measures taken to deal with the virus.

“I think it is too early, we’ve just got two so let us keep watching how this thing carries on.

“The important thing here is to avoid fake news, spreading of false information. We need to be very careful in the way that we communicate about this matter. We must be responsible because we are dealing with a matter that can cause a lot of panic in society and we don’t want to do that,” Ramaphosa added.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the global number of reported cases of COVID-19 has surpassed 100,000.

Close to 3500 have lost their lives.