Eastern Cape premier and health MEC disagree on testing corpses for Covid-19

Premier Oscar Mabuyane and health MEC Sindiswa Gomba are at odds over testing corpses for Covid-19.Premier Oscar Mabuyane has announced that every person who dies in the Eastern Cape would be tested for Covid-19 before their bodies are released to their families, but health MEC Sindiswa Gomba said there are not enough testing kits for such an exercise.

There were 38,081 Covid-19 confirmed cases in the province at the time of writing on Tuesday, 22,022 recoveries and 528 deaths. “There is no province that has its own test kits. There will never be enough kits. People die while they are waiting for tests or they die at home. There is no one who says the death is from Covid-19 because the person has not been tested.

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