The South African Medical Association is rejecting suggestions to hospitalise all COVID-19-positive patients in the Western Cape.
says this would be illogical as some people only have mild symptoms that do not require professional care.The province has the highest number of coronavirus infections with 5,621 cases and 106 deaths reported.
"There seems to be a suggestion that all COVID-19 positive people will be admitted to hospital and this was not made clear, so from our perspective we want to state unequivocally our absolute opposition to this particular notion," said Mark Sonderup from the South African Medical Association. "There is no way our system would tolerate that kind of policy and that international norm is that anybody who is positive, asymptomatic, or mildly asymptomatic can self-isolate at home.
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