South Africa Confirms 116 Coronavirus Cases In Total

South Africa has confirmed 31 new cases of coronavirus, making a total of 116 cases in the country.

As at the early hours of Tuesday morning, the country had 85 cases of the virus in his country.
However, the country’s Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize has now confirmed that there are 116 confirmed positive cases in the country, 14 of which are local transmissions.
In a statement released, the South Africa Minister said “Today we have a further increase of six local transmission cases. As part of tracking and tracing, we have collated background information on how these patients were infected. We will provide more information to the public to make them aware of how these local transmissions occur.
“We will however not disclose full details as this information is subject to patient confidentiality which we are bound by.

“I must inform the public that there was a debate with clinicians, epidemiologists [and] virologists on when we, as government must release results to the public. These experts raised an issue of an ethical obligation to immediately alert patients as soon as the results become available.
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“This therefore means that by the time a confirmation test is conducted in public laboratories, patients would have been notified of their initial results. This clarification is important because as government, we had announced to the public that all positive results will be verified through our public laboratories and the NICD.

“In instances where our confirmation tests give contrary results, we will inform the public, make reference to that specific result previously announced and give the outcome of the confirmation results”.
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