Suspected Covid-19 results for a deceased person
Sonny sent a message to Aaron Motsoaledi.
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Aaron Motsoaledi
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Sonny
- Subject
- Suspected Covid-19 results for a deceased person
- Date
- May 21, 2020, 10:40 a.m.
Dear Minister,
Not to complain but just to raise a concern. We have a deceased member of the family who passe-on on the 14th May a week full as of today 21st May. The deceased is still not yet released for burial and the results still not yet ready.
My biggest concern is this slow pace of conducting the tests. As you will suspect it is black custom for family, friends and neighbours to visit the family almost daily until the burial has been conducted.
So this the delaying of the post mortem results means if indeed the deceased succumbed to Covid-19 then the virus is being spread to more and more people at his home in the meantime. Contact tracing is also going to be more complex as more and more people visit and go.
In our townships the 'Lockdown' is merely a concept. Come see for yourself Sir.
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