The health minister briefed the country on the current status of the response to the disease in SA, urging citizens to work together to fight a possible outbreak.
In a media briefing on Friday to update the public on South Africa’s response to Covid-19, caused by a novel coronavirus, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said no new infections had been identified after yesterday’s first scare in KwaZulu-Natal.
Government officials and parents at the Cowan House Prep in Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands met at the school, as the infected man is one of the school’s parents.Mkhize said the department would not cancel the school’s operations.The businessman consulted a private GP on March 3 after feeling “uncomfortable” with symptoms of fever, headache, malaise, a sore throat and a cough.
“The family has been visited by our trained team. We work in concentric circles of contacts. Anyone who is in contact with the patient will be observed.r made a call for South Africans not to stigmatise anyone with the disease so that people would not be scared to come forward and be tested.
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