The health department has also called on patients who recently visited St Augustine's Hospital in Durban, where three people have died and a number of staff members have tested positive for Covid-19, to contact the provincial health department.
"As part of intensifying the contact tracing and testing process, KZN Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has also the beginning of March. We therefore make a public announcement that if you were a patient Department of Health," the department said on Saturday night. On Friday, KZN premier Sihle Zikalala announced that three patients died from Covid-19 at Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban and that 11 healthcare workers had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Netcare CEO Dr Richard Friedland, in a statement issued immediately after the KZN premier's announcement, said two of the patients were first admitted to the hospital on March 9 and 13 respectively, and the third patient on March 14. He said the patients did not have a history of recent international travel or known contact with a person who was Covid-19 positive, nor did they present with any symptoms of Covid-19 when they were screened on admission.A 48-year-old female from the Western CapeA 46-year-old female from KwaZulu-NatalA 81-year-old female from KwaZulu-NatalPresident Cyril Ramaphosa chaired a virtual Presidential Coordinating Council meeting from his private residence in Johannesburg on Saturday morning.
Sp bloddy scary here in my own home country, but I'm not giving up on GOD and I know we all throughout the world here who are still alive and breathing will come out through this Coronavirus standing and free to go on wants this virus is banished off Of the face of the earth .
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