FILE PHOTO: South African National Defence Force members patrol along the fence of Beit Bridge border, July 21, 2007. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy queues that have been slowed by coronavirus screening, television news channel eNCA said on Friday.
The health ministry, Department of Home Affairs and South African police Local did not respond immediately to Reuters' requests on Friday for confirmation of fatalities that local media outlets attributed to exhaustion and ill health owing to a lack of facilities while waiting to cross the border, sometimes for days.
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