South Africa: Nearby communities fear COVID-19 spread after cases found in world's deepest gold mine

W/S Entrance of AngloGold Ashanti's Mponeng gold mine
M/S Mine entrance
C/U Sign at entrance
W/S Man walking with bike
W/S AngloGold Ashanti's Mponeng mine exterior
W/S Commuters wait for minibus taxis inside Wadela community
M/S Commuters
M/S Commuters wearing face masks
M/S Man wearing face mask
W/S Mini van
W/S Wadela community bordering AngloGold Ashanti's Mponeng mining operations
SOT, Valence Selete, Wadela Resident: "The community is scared because the person who has the coronavirus, didn't see that person who got the coronavirus. We don't see even where they come from. Maybe sometimes I am with somebody with corona, I didn't know. We are so scared, too much."
M/S Children
M/S Wadela resident walking
SOT, Bruce Nyembe, Wadela resident: "Anyone who might pass here, or anyone you have seen works at that mine, you don't know who is infected, who is not infected, they don't tell us, nobody reports to us. We are at risk, whether we have the mask or the gloves, it's the same thing, because this shit is just spreading. There are a lot of people who put on masks here, they get sick either way, even if they have gloves, masks or sanitisers, they just get sick either way."
W/S Mponeng mine shaft *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Lucky Sibiya, Wadela Resident: "Eighty or ninety percent, living here in Wadela, they work there in the mines, and they are going to come with it, there are not other choices, they are going to come with it, no way. They are going to give us this corona."
W/S Mine workers and residents waiting to enter Mponeng Mine Clinic
C/U Health worker
C/U Mine employees
M/S Health worker
W/S Mine employees waiting to enter clinic
C/U Signage at AngloGold Ashanti Mponeng Mine entrance
W/S Entrance to AngloGold Ashanti Mponeng Mine
W/S Bulldozer working
W/S Bulldozer working
W/S Bulldozer
W/S AngloGold Ashanti Mponeng Mine
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Residents of Wadela community near AngloGold Ashanti's Mponeng gold mine voiced their fears about the spread of COVID-19 after more than 160 miners tested positive for the coronavirus.
Some of the residents as well as the mine's employees were filmed on Tuesday wearing face masks and waiting outside a makeshift clinic.
"Eighty or ninety percent, living here in Wadela, they work there in the mines, and they are going to come with it, there are not other choices, they are going to come with it, no way. They are going to give us this corona," said Lucky Sibiya, a Wadela resident.
The Mponeng gold mine, which is the world's deepest, announced a temporary closure and began tracing close contacts of the infected workers. 650 miners had been tested by Monday with 164 positive cases.