Habib: 'Wits to deal with outbreak of coronavirus'
Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand (Wits), says the university is in the process of compiling strategies to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
This comes after a Wits medical student tested positive for COVID-19.
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Wits has since suspended upcoming graduation ceremonies and contact classes.
Habib says the university has received several conflicting petitions from the public and political organisations, containing suggestions on what actions should be taken.
"In the last 24 hours a team of our executives and some specialists in infectious diseases engaged NICD, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, to find out what is the best way for us to proceed as an institutions."
"They informed us that we are at a low infection moment in this case and it is important that we make insidious and significant decisions and that we do in this historical moment," says Habib.
He adds that the university will be dealing with coronavirus in the most logical and rational way.
There are currently 62 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country.