Limpopo's health department said tests have confirmed that a man who died at a private medical practice was Covid-19 positive but did not appear to have known he had the virus.
“Unfortunately he has demised and was diagnosed through post-mortem results,” the department said in a statement on Sunday.
“The deceased is a 55-year-old male who worked in Cape Town as both a freelancer in the film industry and a traditional healer,” the department said. “The family took him to one of the private practitioners in the area where he was declared dead on arrival after spending less than 30 minutes in the practice.”The health department said it was taking swabs and checking every “suspicious” fatality.Tracer teams were dispatched to locate all of his contacts for testing.
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