News24 reports that two police commanders at the Eastern Cape police head office in King William's Town have died on the same day of Covid-19.  

Brigadier Melikaya Ngodi, 56, and Colonel Makhaya Marhwanqa, 58, had met recently at a police operation.  Ngodi was the provincial head of the Operational Command Centre, while Marhwanqa was the commander of the centre's War Room component.  They both succumbed to Covid-19 on Sunday, Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Thembinkosi Kinana advised.  The two had 35 years of service each, having joined the SA Police Service (SAPS) in 1985.  A shocked provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga has suspended all non-critical meetings and operations.  In a letter addressed to all employees, Ntshinga said all SAPS personnel must be restricted to their place of work "as far as possible”.  He added:  “Movement between and within buildings by personnel must be limited.  Visits to the provincial head office, district commissioner's offices and accounting stations must be limited to only those matters that cannot be finalised by means of email correspondence, scanned documents, telephonic engagements or virtual meetings."

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Malibongwe Dayimani at News24

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