The academics said that through detailed analysis of the timelines they were able to build a hypothesis of the most likely chain of events and understand how the virus spread around StAugustines. Covid19SA DailyNewsSA
The hospital was reopened on May 10, along with Netcare Kingsway Hospital which had also closed briefly after an outbreak of the virus was detected there.able to build a hypothesis of the most likely chain of events and understand how the virus spread around the hospital. The was most likely transmitted from a patient being assessed for Covid-19 in the emergency department to another patient being admitted at the same time with a suspected stroke.
The initial spread of the virus was not recognised at the time, because the first patient, who they think was infected in the emergency department, was not initially suspected of having Covid-19 as s diagnosed with Covid-19 and the hospital began responding to the virus several other patients and health-care workers had already been infected.
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