A video emerged of passengers being screened at O.R. Tambo International.
NewsliteSA earlier reported the first case of the Covid 19 in South Africa.
The patient is a 38-year-old man who traveled to Italy and returned to South Africa on March 1.
Aljazeera reported: The couple returned to South Africa on March 1 and the patient consulted a private practitioner two days later with symptoms of fever, headache, malaise, a sore throat and a cough. The patient has been in isolation since then as well as the doctor.