ABERDEEN NEWS - A 37-year-old community health worker at the Masekane Clinic in Aberdeen has tested positive for Covid-19.
She has been working at the clinic as well as the roadblock on the R61, and was tested as a matter of routine with all the clinic staff on 24 April. She has had no symptoms.
When she was notified last Friday that she had tested positive for the virus, she immediately went home and is now in self-isolation away from her family.
According to her aunt, she is in good spirits, and has shown no sign of illness. Another test swab was taken on Friday, and her family, clinic staff and other contacts were tested on Saturday, and are now in isolation awaiting the results.
The Masekane Clinic has been closed this week, and is undergoing a thorough cleaning. It will be reopened on Wednesday and manned by outside staff, as the local health workers are all self-isolating at home until they get their results.
The health worker is the third Aberdeen resident to test positive for Covid-19, and as reports also show the police officer working at the roadblock as an Aberdeen victim, it brings the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Aberdeen to four.
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