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COVID-19: SANDF medical teams to be deployed to ECape

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Medical teams from the South African National Defence Force will be deployed to the Eastern Cape to help as the province's health facilities are being overrun.

The Eastern Cape has had more than 26,000 confirmed infections and close to 400 deaths.Hundreds of used COVID-19 test kits found dumped"Government of the Eastern Cape has been on a negative, unfortunately, on something we were almost clueless about, because it was from a small lab in a hospital, to the bigger lab for processing of specimen," he said.is expected to reach its peak in the province in the coming days.

Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade said,"in terms of the unconfirmed statistics of the Department of Health to us, it's 25 but the confirmed ones it's 15. Out of that 15, we have got learners that are three, we have got four that are non-teaching staff and eight that are teachers."The MEC believes the reopening of schools should depend on the impact of and rise in infections.

 

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