A 38 year old man who returned from Italy with his wife, in a tour group of 10, on March 1, has tested positive for CoronaVirus. The patient and doctor are self isolating.
The tracer team has been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal with epidemiologists & clinicians from NICD. The doctor has been self-isolated as well.A media briefing was issued to ensure that the public are immediately kept abreast #CoronaVirus
A press briefing will be held later after the parliamentary debate this evening to shed more light on this issue #CoronavirusOutbreak #CoronaVirusSA
It is almost certain that as soon as more testing occurs on a wider scale, many more cases will be discovered…