South Africa’s health minister, Zweli Mkhize, and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Minister’s office made the announcement on Sunday.
The office quoted the minister in a statement as saying that “I am now in quarantine at home and both my wife and I remain optimistic that we will fully recover from this virus.
Mkhize was tested on Saturday after showing mild symptoms.
On Friday, the number of coronavirus cases in Africa’s worst affected country surpassed 700,000 since the first case was diagnosed in March and amid fears a second wave of infection would exacerbate an economic recession.
According to the latest government data released on Saturday, South Africa had detected nearly two thousand new cases to push the total confirmed cases to just over 700,000 and over 18,400 deaths.
