Cases of Covid-19 continues to rise in South Africa as today the 20th of March 2020 two hundred and two of cases and have been confirmed and recorded. The new confirmation of this cases was announced by the minister of health during his media briefing. 

33 new cases in Gauteng, 1 in KZN, 11 in Western cape and 7 in Free State. The Free State has recorded their new first cases today and the Free State health department has ensure the community that they will tackle this outbreak and try by all means to protect them from spreading and affecting them. 

This new cases that are recorded in Free State all of these citizens have travelled internationally and they have been quarantined in a B&B after testing and now they are in self-isolation.

And the health minister has said that 60-70% of people in South Africa will contact this disease but that shouldn’t cause any panic as people are requested to do all they can to protect themselves from this virus by practicing washing of hands daily and social distancing. 

SAA has suspected international flights that runs to and from the US, U.K and Germany immediately until the end of May. Citizens coming from high-risk countries will not be allowed to enter the country as they could be a high risk to the community they might be coming back to.