Gauteng Health starts search for pupils who attended Rage event
The Department of Health in the KwaZulu-Natal has been declared a Covid-19 super-spreader and has led to other legs of the event being cancelled.
The department has now begun tracing the contacts of the pupils who attended the event over the weekend.
Earlier, chairperson of the national Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee, Professor Abdool Karim, said there were at least 92 confirmed infections from the Rage event.
“Our contact tracing team is working around the clock to trace all the students who took part in the Rage events. It is important they all go for testing and are monitored until they are cleared by clinicians,” says Gauteng Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi.
Four staff members also tested positive for Covid-19 at the Rage event, despite organisers claiming strict health and safety measures were put in place.
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“We reiterate the call made by the national Ministry of Health that all who went to the Rage event need to quarantine themselves for 14 days and to go for testing as a matter of urgency,” adds Gauteng Health spokesperson Kwara Kekana.
“Those that test positive will need to isolate for mandatory ten days. It must be pointed out that family contact of those that test positive must also go for testing and must go into quarantine immediately.”
Gauteng is scrambling to find more than 1 300 pupils from the province who attended the Matric Rage 2020 event in Ballito.
