Limpopo to screen all visitors for coronavirus
The Department of Health in Limpopo will screen everyone entering the province in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.
The province’s Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba says this will be done as many people are expected to travel through the province ahead of the 21-day lockdown which starts on Friday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a nationwide lockdown on Monday as part of government’s efforts to arrest the tide of coronavirus infections.
“We have decided to make people understand that they are entering a province of the vulnerable and rural people who cannot afford to be sick, we are screening all the people who are driving to Limpopo,” says Ramathuba.
“We encourage all of our people to stay at home, if we stay home we will be able to maintain the cases at a minimal rate. We are here to say during this period please isolate and quarantine.”
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Limpopo residents who are out of the province asked not to return home.
This comes after three news cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the Province. Ramathuba says the three new cases are of South African citizens from the Western Cape who traveled to several high-risk countries in Europe earlier this month.