Zweli Mkhize has returned to the province on another oversight visit to monitor its response to COVID-19 and said according his assessment, there had not been a total breakdown in the running of the health department in that province.
The first parcel was delivered in the week and the suspicious behaviour of the recipient caught the company's attention.
Members of Parliament's Cogta committee have questioned Eastern Cape authorities about corruption allegations and a poor response to the pandemic.
An intelligence-driven operation conducted this week, led police to a house in Phuku Street.
The Health Minister said scooters would only be used to deliver medication in rural parts of the Eastern Cape.
Before the pandemic, around nine million children in South Africa's state-run schools received a meal per day as part of a government-led nutrition programme.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane said that they’d identified 87 wards in four metros where urgent intervention was needed.
The Eastern Cape has been under scrutiny, with an ever-increasing number of infections and persistent problems with basic health infrastructure.
A group of military medical experts have been sent to the province where there's been a marked uptick in COVID-19 infections.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane has painted a grim picture of the disease's effects, saying 200 of these schools remain closed while 91 have been reopened.
The province has 270 learners from 154 schools affected, where 271 staff have also tested positive for the coronavirus.
A passer-by on Monday discovered dozens of samples discarded alongside the N2 between King Williams Town and East London.
The woman was kidnapped on 11 June and her body was found several days later.
Four other suspects have also been apprehended.
Two departments, Public Works and Water Sanitation are failing to also to pay suppliers on time.
Health officials are scrambling to contain the outbreak at Makaula Senior Secondary School in Mount Frere where more than 180 pupils tested positive for COVID-19.
The provincial Health Department is scrambling to contain the outbreak at the Mount Frere school.
Walter Williams was part of the Nice Time Bozzas criminal gang, which terrorised a Helenvale community in December 2018.
