The provincial department of health has confirmed that six nurses have tested positive for Covid-19. The hospital's trauma and radiology departments were closed on TuesdaySix health-care workers at Netcare Kingsway hospital, south of Durban, have tested positive for Covid-19 after parts of the hospital were closed on Tuesday.
The MEC was speaking to media at the Jika Joe informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday where KZN premier Sihle Zikalala officially launched the province's home screening programme. He said the patient was risk assessed and screened for Covid-19 symptoms and exposure, even though he was asymptomatic and there were no travel risks associated with him or his family.
This is the second Netcare hospital in the province where health-care workers have tested positive for the virus. Last week 48 nurses at Netcare's St Augustine's hospital tested positive for the virus. “We are very worried about the situation and it's more serious when two hospitals from one group are experiencing the same kind of situation.
It is expected for all health workers in private hospitals since most cases are diagnosed or admitted there. The public health sector has been spared. Luckily
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Six health-care workers test positive at Netcare Kingsway hospitalSix health care workers at Netcare Kingsway hospital, south of Durban, have tested positive for Covid-19, after parts of the hospital were closed on Tuesday.
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Six health-care workers test positive at Netcare Kingsway hospitalSix health care workers at Netcare Kingsway hospital, south of Durban, have tested positive for Covid-19, after parts of the hospital were closed on Tuesday.
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