The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has closed the Cowan House Preparatory School in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal through the weekend after a parent of a learner at the school tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Our Sethu Mbuli is live-tweeting the briefing:
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Laura Lopez Gonzalez is a freelance health journalist and editor. She was Bhekisisa's news editor, then deputy editor between 2016 and 2020.
