A 59-year-old nurse at the hospital tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
The outpatient department of the Potchefstroom Hospital has been closed and decontaminated after a positive case of Covid-19, the North West health department said on Monday.
“The nurse is attached to the outpatient department of the hospital,” health department spokesperson Tebogo Lekgethwane said.“Furthermore, the [health] department has begun a process of tracing the contacts of the nurse,” Lekgethwane added.As of Tuesday, 26 May, North West had 109 cases of coronavirus, with 29 recoveries and one death.North West contributes 0.5% to South Africa’s total coronavirus cases.
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