Gauteng coronavirus patient in critical condition
One of the four newly confirmed coronavirus patients in Gauteng is in a critical condition, the provincial health department said on Wednesday.
Six new cases of coronavirus was confirmed in South Africa earlier, bringing the total number of positive tests to 13.
Gauteng’s coronavirus cases jumped to 4.
All the patients - aged between 33 and 57- returned from trips to Europe in March.
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Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku says the critical patient, who is 57-years-old, also suffers from a chronic kidney disease.
"One of them is a 57-year-old with renal disease, which we are quite worried about, because those are two factors that usually give a severe pattern of the disease that we have seen.
"We are quite confident with our staff and everybody who has been working throughout, even the tracing teams to trace the contact of the patients.”