An elderly Durban couple - both residents at a retirement home - is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19.
An elderly Durban couple is in isolation at their retirement home after being diagnosed with Covid-19.An elderly Durban couple — both residents at a retirement home — is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19.
“We have put them in isolation. We are now dealing with keeping them contained in their room for 14 days. Managers said in a statement that it had taken a decision last week to lock down the Langeler Towers and John Conradie House complex “at the advice of visiting health department officials in order to isolate infection within the facility and prevent the spread of the virus both within the home and outside the home, through the movement of residents and visitors in and out of the building.”
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