(Reuters) – Harmony Gold Mining Company said on Tuesday that it expects limited gold production during the 21-day lockdown in South Africa in the wake of the fast-spreading coronavirus.

The South Africa-based miner said that it expects to only produce between 650kg to 700kg of gold in South Africa during the lockdown.

(Reporting by Aakash Jagadeesh Babu in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard Orr)

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