Avenues Clinic in Harare was not admitting patients
yesterday after the hospital announced that a nurse in the casualty department
tested positive for Covid-19 after handling an infected patient.
There were social media reports yesterday that another
seven members of staff may have tested positive, although these reports could
not be verified at the time of going to print last night and did not say
whether the tests were the rapid screening tests, which can generate false
positives, or the diagnostic PCR tests used to confirm infection.
Although the matron at the private hospital declined to
answer questions last night, security staff said they were not allowing new
admissions.
Almost all weekend admissions would be for the casualty or
maternity sections, with visitors being allowed into the maternity section last
night, as a man with a wife at the maternity ward was allowed into the
building.
There are unconfirmed reports that country’s largest
referral hospital, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare recently recorded
70 staff members who tested positive to Covid-19, again without any information
about whether these were screening tests or diagnostic tests.
It was said 64 staff were from non-Covid-19 sections, while
six were from the Covid-19 Centre.
Efforts to get a comment from the referral hospital’s
spokesperson last night were fruitless. Herald
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