’’It doesn’t help us in containing this transmission. It sounds like Trump, the more people you test, the more positive cases you get, so you don’t test,’’ says Good party secretary-general Brett Herron, a member of the Western Cape legislature.
Cape Town – With the Western Cape currently the Covid-19 epicentre in the country, Good party secretary-general Brett Herron, a member of the Western Cape legislature, wants the province to ’’stop this stupid, dangerous strategy of not testing people under the age of 45 who don’t present symptoms’’.
Health officials only test for Covid-19 in people in the province who are symptomatic and 45 years and older; all persons who are symptomatic with co-morbidities; all persons who are symptomatic and in need of hospitalisation, healthcare workers and people living in congregate settings. ’’If they are suppressing the numbers so they can keep the economy open, if their focus is solely on the economy, they are actually not helping the economy because more and more people are getting sick.’’
According to its Covid-19 Dashboard, the Western Cape reported 40 252 active cases, 408 685 confirmed cases and 353 145 recoveries as at 1pm yesterday. ’’I intervened and said my mother is 83 and living alone and if she becomes symptomatic, she won’t be able to get to a testing centre, so please test her. So they did test her and she was Covid-positive.
’’The people who are infected need to know they are positive, so they can isolate and inform the people they have possibly come into contact with. This virus is transmitted by human beings interacting with each other. If you don’ know you have Covid and continue to live your life as if you don’t, then you are part of the transmission.’’
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