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Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says there hasn’t been any indication of contamination in water reservoirs following the first deathPhaahla was speaking at the post-SONA social cluster media briefing in Pretoria on Sunday morning.

A 24-year-old man from Benoni, east of Johannesburg, with no travel history is the first fatal case to be reported.Phaahla says, “The threat will always be there but we are still comfortable at this stage that it’s been isolated cases.

Did they test anything?

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