Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- Authorities increased security around a Pretoria hospital where former South African leaderNelson Mandela remained in intensive care, three days after being rushed there with a recurring lung infection.
Police set up gates and fences around entrances to the facility on Tuesday, closely checking vehicles trying to access the compound.
The increasingly frail Mandela was taken to a hospital in Pretoria on Saturday. Later in the day, the South African president's office said the 94-year-old former leader was in a "serious but stable condition."
He was breathing on his own and his wife was by his side, the office said at the time.After offering no updates for 48 hours, the government said Monday that Mandela's condition was "unchanged."
Meanwhile, his daughter Zenani Dlamini, who is the South African ambassador to Argentina, has flown back to South Africa to be with her father.
African National Congress lawmaker and Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie, also visited him Monday.
Mandela has been in and out of hospitals in recent years.
Each episode has sparked renewed concerns.
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