A two-day-old baby has become SA's first neonatal Covid-19 fatality, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday night.
Mkhize said that the child was one of 27 new Covid-19 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. The country's death toll now stands at 339, and the number of confirmed cases has climbed to 18,003...
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