A private school and a luxury estate just outside Durban have issued warnings of possible contact with the country's first Covid-19 case, while the nurse who took the swab has managed to escape quarantine through her own meticulousness.
This handout illustration image obtained February 27, 2020 courtesy of the National Institutes of Health taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab, SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes Covid-19. Picture: Handout / National Institutes of Health / AFP
The medical practice where the country’s first case of Covid-19 reared its head this week has not been closed, despite one of its doctors having been placed in “self-isolation” Speaking to The Citizen, the son of one of the clinic’s staff members said he wasn’t aware of the clinic being closed, but said the staff were also being monitored.
Estate CEO Desiree Stone wrote in a statement, “It has been brought to our attention that one of our Residents living on Estate 2 has been in contact with the patient that has just been tested positive for the Corona Virus. The Resident is in contact with the NICD and once tested and the results are known further communication will follow.”
Cowan House Independent Co-Educational Preparatory School also released a statement, informing parents that one of their pupils’ parents had tested positive for the virus. They said they were in constant communication with the NICD, and would take all further instruction from them.
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