The number of South Africans calling for government to issue travel ban into South Africa from countries hardest-hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19) is growing. COVID-19
The Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union is calling on the government to effect a travel ban to “adequately” deal with the pandemic.
YNITU says if government fails effect a travel ban, it will withdraw the labour of its nurses from the front line. “We have heard of nurses from a clinic in Sedibeng who came in contact with a person who was confirmed to have the virus. The patient went to the clinic and was referred to a hospital but at the hospital, the patient was discharged and was told its just minor flu. This is despite the patient having indicated that they had come in contact with a person from Italy. The patient later came back and it was only during that time that they diagnosed them and put them into isolation,” says YNITU.
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