By Simon Nare
Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently in self-isolation, his department said on Wednesday.
In a brief statement, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition said Tau had urged anyone who had recently come into contact with him to take precautionary measures and seek testing if necessary.
“Mr Tau is in good spirits and is currently in self-isolation,” the department said.
The department did not disclose where Tau had recently travelled or whether he attended the Presidency’s budget vote debate in Parliament on Tuesday and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to the debate on Wednesday.
Tau’s last publicly recorded overseas trip was to China in February 2026.
South Africa recorded its first COVID-19 case on March 5, 2020.
The pandemic went on to infect more than four million people in the country, resulting in more than 102,000 deaths, while nearly
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