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TimesLIVE reports that a hospital in Stanger, north of Durban, has closed its doors to new patients after 19 people tested positive for Covid-19.
The General Justice Gizenga Memorial hospital, formerly the Stanger hospital, will stop taking new patients with "immediate effect", said the KwaZulu-Natal health department. The 19 cases involved "nine mothers, two babies, four doctors and one nurse". The department said: "What is of particular concern to us is the fact that these infections have taken place in spite of the hospital’s infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, as well as the requisite personal protective equipment (PPE) that has been made available to staff." The first case was a medical consultant from the hospital’s paediatric department. An investigation has been launch to "seek to establish, among others, where the virus came from and how it was able to spread at such a rapid rate within the hospital". The hospital, with 219 patients, has effectively been turned into a quarantine site. All staff and patients in the surgical ward and ICU have been tested and the remaining staff and patients will be tested by Tuesday.
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