Durban old age home now has two residents who tested positive for Covid-19

Both women – the 81-year-old and the patient who shared the hospital ward – are on ventilators at St Augustine's Hospital.A manager at the home, who declined to be named, said the 81-year-old woman was recently admitted to St Augustine's Hospital for a suspected stroke.

"She was only here for four days when she got sick again. We sent her back to St Augustine's Hospital. When she tested positive, the other woman, who shared the sick bay with her, was tested and she too is positive. She is in Addington hospital," he said.

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