COVID-19: Over 900 Gauteng learners test positive after attending KZN rage
Updated | By Gcinokuhle Malinga
Gauteng's health officials are urging the family members of matrics who attended KZN's Rage Festival to get tested for COVID-19.
They confirmed, this past weekend, that more than 980 learners who returned home from the Ballito event - now have the virus. About 1 300 pupils went to the party from Gauteng.
The spokesperson for the Health MEC, Kwara Kekana says more than 250 learners still haven't been tested.
She's reminded pupils and their families to self-quarantine.
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"These students had 340 contacts of which 32 have tested positive.
She says the Gauteng Department of Health continues to plead with learners and their parents to cooperate with health workers, who are doing the contact tracing.
"As this is an important process in this stop in the spread of the coronavirus. Out of the actual number of learners, 99 were uncooperative."
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