Western Cape’s first COVID-19 patient isolated at home #CoronaVirusSA
The Western Cape’s first COVID-19 patient is self-isolated at home after contracting the disease while travelling through Europe. Three more patients are in isolation wards in Tygerberg Hospital awaiting test results to reveal whether they are also infected with the virus. As more cases of COVID-19 infections in South Africa surface, authorities are preparing for the worst. Western Cape healthcare facilities say they’re ready should more cases of COVID-19 be confirmed.
South Africa has 13 reported cases of the novel coronavirus, all from people who had recently travelled to countries where the virus has spread.
Western Cape premier Alan Winde said of their single patient: “He presented himself to private healthcare, with symptoms, he was concerned. 48 hours he was confined and the tests came back as positive, he is now self-isolated back at home.”
Western Cape Department Head Dr Beth Engelbrecht said if a patient is positive already that is when he is isolated. If they need hospitalisation, we hospitalise them in that ward depending on what that need is but the private hospitals are also working with us. Health authorities are currently tracing any contact the infected patients may have had.
In other news – Mona Monyane talks about the loss of her seven-day-old baby girl
Even though it’s been two years since actress Mona Monyane‘s seven-day-old baby girl died, the gaping hole in her heart will take a lifetime to heal. Since announcing that she had separated from her husband, actor Khulu Skenjana, after four years of marriage, Mona has been on a journey of wellness and self introspect.
Taking to her YouTube channel, The Power of Wellness, Mona took a deep breath and said: “So, two years ago after seven days, my daughter … my second child passed away in my arms. When that happened, it felt like my entire life stopped. It felt like I had lost complete faith in the idea of a higher power and the idea of God. Read more
Source: eNCA
