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TimesLIVE reports that acclaimed epidemiologist Prof Salim Abdool Karim will lead an investigation into the outbreak of the coronavirus at St Augustine's hospital in Durban.
Netcare management on Wednesday moved swiftly to deny that medical staff and employees at the hospital — where 66 people have tested positive for Covid-19 — were not given appropriate personal protective equipment. In response to health minister Zweli Mkhize’s announcement and concern at the situation at the hospital on Tuesday, Netcare CEO Dr Richard Friedland said the hospital was “deeply saddened that, despite our very best efforts and precautions, there have been a total of four Covid-19-associated deaths” there. Friedland advised that a number of measures have been implemented at the hospital including sanitisation, swabbing of almost 2,000 employees and working with Prof Karim to investigate the underlying cause and nature of the outbreak. He said contrary to certain misleading claims, staff members and doctors at the 464-bed hospital — regarded as one of the flagship private hospitals in the country — had been provided with appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Yasantha Naidoo and Lwandile Bhengu at TimesLIVE
- Read too, Close down St Augustine's hospital immediately, says union, after 66 people test positive for Covid-19, at TimesLIVE
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