EC health dept denies virus-positive pupils, staff left stranded outside hotel

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This after a picture of two buses outside a hotel in KwaBhaca was posted on social media with a caption claiming 600 pupils were stranded with nowhere to sleep.

The Eastern Cape department of health has denied social media reports that 204 pupils and staff – who tested positive for Covid-19 at Makaula Secondary School – were left stranded outside a hotel on Tuesday night.

On Wednesday, Kupelo said the pupils and staff were all safely transported to a hotel in Matatiele as well as a bed-and-breakfast and River Lodge in KwaBhaca. Kupelo said teams of health workers, including doctors, would be attached to the quarantine sites to manage the patients.

 

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