The Eastern Cape Department of Health introduced a screening and screening crusade after 30 academics at Fort Hare University took the Covid-19 test.
Students tested positive amid accusations of non-compliance with Level 1 regulations in which masks were not used, no social esttachment was observed and no hand disinfection was performed at a tavern in Quigney, east London.
According to Fort Hare University spokesman Tandi Mapukata, academics went out for a drink at the local tavern on October 3 and a week later attended a party.
Mapukata said that most of the academics who took the test came from the College of Nursing and some from the College of Law.
“Positive academics at Covid-19 are quarantined and remoted on alice’s campus, where the university had set aside a 134-room residence,” Mapukata said.
Students who attended the festivities showed that closing rules were not being met. The number of visitors to the tavern would be more than 300. Some would have been drinking in a bottle and dancing near others.
Mapukata said the university is in the process of securing a quarantine site for the East London campus, in addition to the 134-bed quarantine and isolation center in Alice, and that the province is helping with more isolation and quarantine services at King William’s Town.
Department of Health spokeswoman Siyanda Manana said two positive academics were discovered through follow-up groups in Buffalo City and Joe Gqabi after returning home, one at Mount Fletcher and the other at Reston in east London.
Tomorrow, the Department of Higher Education, had been alerted to advances at Fort Hare University.
“Eastern Cape’s fitness branch urges everyone to stay tuned as the coronavirus is still with us. It is an invisible pandemic and our populations are encouraged to wear their masks, maintain their social distances, wash their hands regularly for more than 20 seconds, disinfect their hands and get tested once they are ‘symptoms of the virus ”, he said.
Tomorrow she said that due to fears of the moment of the Covid-19 wave, others are be asked to stand where there are giant crowds.
“We’ve noticed an increase in numbers as the government reduces the degrees of blockade, but other people seem to think covid-19 no longer exists. People are begging to be guilty of their health,” he said.