Limpopo authorities track down family of positive man

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Limpopo health authorities are tracking down relatives and friends of a man who defied orders to self-quarantine and travelled to his home village from Gauteng after his Covid-19 test returned positive

The man was apprehended yesterday. He had left his place of quarantine in Gauteng to travel to Limpopo.

National police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo said the man was handed over to the Limpopo health department by police.The patient was not aware that he was positive when he left Gauteng, he said. “His results came out positive and tracer teams in Gauteng struggled to locate him until he was found in Limpopo, where the health department acted swiftly to have the man taken into isolation,” said Ramathuba.

 

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