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The Star reports that fear has gripped a Gauteng retirement village that houses more than 400 vulnerable senior citizens after a staff member working in the food preparation section allegedly tested positive for Covid-19.
This stirred accusations that last week’s death of an elderly woman, who resided at Bougainvilla Retirement Village in Tshwane and who had a pre-existing lung condition, was due to Covid-19. Allegedly, the facility’s management concealed a catering staff member’s positive Covid-19 test results that came back on Saturday, with residents being informed only on Sunday after their relatives sent a flurry of emails fuelled by anxiety over the safety of their loved ones. There was also a report on Tuesday about the “crisis” at the Sen-Cit Resthaven Old Age Home, where two deaths and 32 positive Covid-19 cases were recorded. That sparked concern among the families of Bougainvilla residents, who feared that kitchen and administration staff who were in contact with the Covid-19 positive worker still served food to them on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The village’s management advised that it had been the employee’s husband who tested positive on Saturday, after which the staff member “was sent home immediately and tested as well”. Further to that, the whole team was sent home and the kitchen sanitised on Saturday evening. A whole new team apparently started work on Sunday morning.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khaya Koko at The Star
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