The department earlier confirmed that a grade one pupil from Iketleng Primary School in Hammanskraal had been diagnosed with Monkeypox.
The Gauteng Department of Education has retracted its statement regarding the confirmation of the first Monkeypox case at a school in Gauteng.
However, later on Thursday morning, the department’s spokesperson Steve Mabona said the case needs to be confirmed by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the Department of Health .“We acknowledge that the announcement of any confirmed cases should be made by the NICD and the DoH following thorough testing and verification.
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