31 coronavirus recoveries for South Africa - Health Minister via 24liveblog
The minister also retracted a prior announced death and clarified that there was just one coronavirus death, not two as the department had earlier claimed on Friday morning.
One of those in ICU was an 81-year-old grandmother in KZN, who had reported to hospital complaining of pneumonia from her old age home, only to be found to have the Covid-19 virus. She was tested after doctors thought her pneumonia was aggressive. Mkhize warned that the virus had reached persons with underlying diseases and sounded a warning to the country. expose themselves by making contact with a lot of people.
“To illustrate this, in KZN, one of the confirmed cases is an 81-year-old female who is now in ICU and in a ventilator. Because of the severity of the pneumonia, she was tested for Covid-19 and was confirmed. This elderly woman lives in an old age home,” he said.
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