CoronavirusinSA: The Western Cape provincial health department says it will commence community screening and testing for Covid-19 from Monday.
Screening and testing will be expanded to other vulnerable communities at high risk of coronavirus spreading from person to person.
Screening will be conducted door-to-door by trained field workers in these areas using simple verbal questions to identify people who may require testing. Health workers will ask health questions aimed at screening for symptom . "We ask the public to please allow our workers to screen them. "Testing will be done if the questions indicate that you require a further test. The health worker will refer you to the closest testing centre. The test will be done by taking a swab from your nose and throat. This will either be done in a clinic, or in a mobile parked in your area. Test results will not be immediately available but patients will be followed up and advised of their status.
Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu, KZN’s MEC for Health, and her department chose uMlazi for the pilot project as schoolteacher Tholakele Shandu, who succumbed to the virus, hailed from the neighbourhood.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
SA's confirmed Covid-19 cases up 80 to 1,585, Eastern Cape up to 25South Africa's health minister Zwelini Mkhize announced in a statement released on Saturday night that the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country had risen to 1,585.
Read more »
Booze worth half-a-million rand seized from Cape tavern flouting lockdown rulesA Dunoon tavern owner's scheme to take his business to his clients while they were confined to their homes by the 21-day national lockdown has backfired badly. lockdown
Read more »
SA's confirmed Covid-19 cases up 80 to 1,585, Eastern Cape up to 25Health minister Zwelini Mkhize announced on Saturday night that that SA now has a total of nine confirmed deaths associated with the virus.
Read more »
SA's confirmed Covid-19 cases up 80 to 1,585, Eastern Cape up to 25Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday night that the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country had risen to 1,585.
Read more »
Eastern Cape mom found murdered next to her babyHer 18-month-old baby lay alone with her until she was found on Friday afternoon in her home in the Mahasana village.
Read more »
Eastern Cape farmers, quarantined after trip to Germany, finally free to return to their homesAfter being quarantined for two weeks at a lodge in Beacon Bay since their arrival last month from Germany, a group of farmers and government officials were released to their homes on Saturday.
Read more »