Brace yourselves, SA.
This follows news that the US recorded about 1,300 new coronavirus deaths between Thursday and Friday - the highest single-day death toll reported by any country.
"Today we decided to bring out our screening teams and tracer teams in order to pilot the mass screening and understand what needs to be done. I must indicate that it is not everybody that is going to be tested. Everybody is going to be screened and the screening is going to determine who needs to be tested,"she said.
Madhi said the National Health Laboratory Services rather needed to explain why only 11 of its more than 230 labs are being used for Covid-19 testing and what it is doing to secure supplies to ramp up mass testing of 35,000 people a day. He said the NHLS should have properly planned for Covid-19 infection testing when the National Institute for Communicable Diseases started surveillance of the virus in January.
The head of the NHLS, Dr Kamy Chetty, said it is not SA's fault that new tests for Covid-19 have not been rolled out yet. "From an operational point of view, the NHLS has had to work extremely fast to capacitate itself," Chetty said.
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