A woman is facing prosecution in South Africa after she posed as a patient displaying symptoms of coronavirus. The woman presented h...
A woman is facing
prosecution in South Africa after she posed as a patient displaying symptoms of
coronavirus.
The woman presented herself as potentially being infected
with Covid-19 at Grey Hospital in King William's Town, saying she was employed
by the 38-year-old man who was on Thursday the first person in South Africa to
be diagnosed with Covid-19 after returning from Italy.
On verification, it was discovered that the woman was
unemployed and that the story was a fabrication.
"Understandably, doctors and nurses ran around testing
the woman and taking steps to ensure the woman was isolated. The possibility to
have a case of coronavirus in the Eastern Cape caused unnecessary panic among
the hospital staff and nurses at Grey Hospital. This was a childish and selfish
hoax by the woman that is condemned with the contempt it deserves," said
provincial health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.
The Eastern Cape Department of Health will be opening a
case against the women, confirmed Kupelo.
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