This, as premier, Job Mokgoro and a team of MECs will today meet to assess the work and progress made in the implementation of the Provincial Response Plan to COVID-19 in the last three weeks. So far 22 people tested positive for the virus and 164 tests have been conducted. Mokgoro's spokesperson, Vuyisile Ngesi, says Council, chaired by the premier, will also receive an update on the ongoing rollout of the Mass COVID-19 Screening, Testing and Contact Tracing Programme. Meanwhile, the province is on a tracing mission to find six people who were said to have come into contact with a Klerksdorp doctor who later tested positive for COVID-19.

So far, 22 people tested positive after three more became infected. According to the Health MEC in the province, Madoda Sambatha, one of the infected individuals in the province is a specialist doctor in Klerksdorp. This doctor allegedly came into contact with 44 employees and 56 patients. Of the 164 tests conducted, 94 turned out negative, 41 are still pending and the province has a total of 3 recoveries with no death reported.  

So far the Bojanala district, which includes Rustenburg, has over ten cases. The Dr Kenneth Kaunda District, which includes Potchefstroom, has over four, while the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District, which includes Bloemhof, has only one case. The Ngaka Modiri Molema District, which includes Mahikeng, has two cases. 

OFM News previously reported that one of the cases reported so far includes that of a 21-year-old woman from Bloemhof - who attended an event at Divine Restoration Ministries in Bloemfontein in the Free State. 

Meanwhile, 27 people have died from the virus and the number of infections stands at 2272 confirmed cases. There have also been 88 663 tests conducted across the country.

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