Department spokesperson Foster Mohale said about 150 possible cholera contacts, mostly from Benoni on the East Rand, had been reached so far by Gauteng’s contact tracing teams after the country’s first cholera death last week.Mohale said, the two, whose results are expected soon, were the only ones from the group of 150 people who had shown symptoms of cholera so far.“We’ve referred the two to hospital for treatment so that more tests could be conducted to check if indeed it’s cholera.
“The Gauteng outbreak teams are monitoring immediate contacts including at workplaces. At this stage there is no indication of contamination of public water resources with the bacteria,” health minister Joe Phaahla told a social cluster media briefing in Pretoria on Sunday.