More than 100 positive Covid-19 tests at Beitbridge border post

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The Limpopo health department is worried that Covid-19 may be spreading rapidly in the winding queues at the Beitbridge border as thousands of people — mostly migrants — queue to get into SA.

There are fears that more people could contract Covid-19 in the snaking queues at the Beitbridge border in Zimbabwe. File photo.The Limpopo health department is worried that Covid-19 may be spreading rapidly in the winding queues at theHealth MEC Phophi Ramathuba said they had noted that at least 104 people had tested positive for the virus at the border in the past four days.

Her department has now called on all people who have entered SA through the border to self-quarantine before interacting with other people once they reach their destinations. “With thousands of people stuck for days while waiting for their entry into the country to be processed, the department is worried that the events at the border are fast becoming a superspreader [of the virus],” Ramathuba said.

“Considering the incubation period of the virus, we wish to implore those who will be crossing from Beitbridge to do the right thing and self-quarantine because they have been exposed to a potential superspreader.”

 

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Worried n then what?

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Why there’s still queues why is South Africa still let people in a country they can’t control the 😷

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Kary Mullis himself, the inventor of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology, (His invention got him the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1993) regarded the PCR as inappropriate to detect a viral infection....

MbuyiseniNdlozi That's what was done to chiefs in Angola, we can't stigmatize black African as spreaders of the virus is very dangerous

It's pandemic time and people should not be moving between countries, we should expect huge increase in cases because of this congestion.

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The virus is very specific on its targets

And many of these people do mot wear mask. Its taboo to them

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The border must be closed period.

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