R28 million to accommodate people in private establishments who have tested positive to Covid-19 virus.

SAfm — Government says the provisional costs to accommodate people in private owned establishments who have tested positive to Covid-19 virus will be to the tune of about R28 million. The Department of Public Works says it has identified more than 700 privately owned properties including four star hotels nationwide for quarantine purposes. Briefing both the Public Works and the Select Committees on Public Works in Parliament- Acting Deputy Director General Morris Mabinja says there are more than six hundred state owned facilities currently being identified as quarantine sites.