People are starting to realise the severity of the Covid-19 coronavirus and are making use of the many screening sites set up across the country.
“The severity of the Covid-19 coronavirus dawned on the majority of us [township-dwelling South Africans] once the numbers of those infected kept increasing and the country started recording deaths as a result of the virus,” said Mduduzi Dlamini, a resident of Merafong local municipality, on Wednesday afternoon after undergoing the screening process for the virus.
These mass screenings were made possible when President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to institute a “new phase” in the government’s fight against Covid-19, including “the mass rolling out of screening, testing, tracing and a medical management programme” to be undertaken by about 10 000 field workers.Ramaphosa said he and his ministeral national Covid-19 command council were trying to increase testing from fewer than 2 000 a day to close to 50 000 tests nationally a day.
However, the planned screenings did not go ahead smoothly. There was no screening and testing at two of the sites – Carletonville Mall and Shoprite at Extension 9. The Fochville screening opened much later than the scheduled 9am time.Your browser does not support HTML5 video. To get first-hand experience of the screening process, our journalist, Palesa Dlamini, went through the quick and simple three-step process.
Then the nurses took the temperature – either by placing the thermometer under the tongue or with a hand-held thermometer placed in front of the forehead, but not touching it. With a temperature reading of 36ºC, and “satisfactory responses” to the questions posed, Dlamini was sent on her way.
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