Jessica King, public relations manager for the South African branch of ZTE Corporation, said: “While ZTE Corporation South Africa can confirm the tragic passing on Friday last week of a contractor in our Cape Town office, there was a negative result for coronavirus.”“We are of course deeply saddened by this news and our thoughts and prayers are with the deceased’s family at this difficult time.
"The allegations surfacing on social media that this incident is somehow related to the COVID-19 are misleading, disrespectful to the family and totally unsubstantiated. "Any link to COVID-19 is false and we can only assume anyone still reporting on this is purposefully attempting to sow unnecessary panic."
She added that the “other contractor mentioned in Smit’s posts has now fully recovered from his illness and is a local employee who had not travelled out of South Africa". King said the name and other personal details of the contractor are being withheld to respect the family’s rights. She called on the public to"respect the family’s privacy during this difficult period".“We can confirm that we have no confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus,” the company told TimesLIVE.
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