The KwaZulu-Natal health department has given St Augustine's hospital a week to move dialysis patients out of its centre after several patients there tested positive for Covid-19.
The centre, which is housed in a building separate from the main hospital, was allowed to continue operating because of a shortage of
Simelane-Zulu said the hospital had assured them it was not possible for the virus to move into the dialysis centre because the affected health-care workers worked only in the main hospital.She was speaking at a media briefing on Sunday where KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala indicated the province would be clamping down on lockdown rules. This would include compelling all those who have tested positive to be self-isolated and quarantined at state facilities.
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