The City of Ekurhuleni on Thursday closed the Duduza Clinic in Nigel, Ekurhuleni, after a staff nurse tested positive for COVID-19.
The staff nurse in question is said to have attended a prayer breakfast at the Divine Restoration Ministries in Bloemfontein in the Free State Province on March 10 2020, according to municipality authorities.
On Thursday, Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina handed over two mobile clinics to the Duduza community after metro officials closed the clinic indefinitely.
Masina said staff from surrounding clinics will be deployed to the mobile clinics and will be required to wear personal protective equipment and practice stringent hygiene protocols when working with the public.
The nurse, according to a statement from the city authorities, underwent a polymerase chain reaction test for COVID-19 on 30 March 2020, after being identified as a contact of the Bloemfontein gathering.
The results returned positive on 31 March 2020 and the
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