South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg’s Yeoville neighbourhood as Africa’s worst virus-hit
Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers set up their testing station on the front porch of a block of flats in the gritty business neighbourhood.
Already in a 21-day lockdown, South Africa is now embarking on the widespread testing and quarantine campaign involving some 10,000 field workers who are being sent out into homes in villages, towns and cities to screen for symptoms. In Yeoville—a crime-prone area in Johannesburg’s hardscrabble central business district—eight small groups have been dispatched across an area covering one square kilometre.
Before the rollout of mass screening and testing, more than 47,500 tests had been performed, 6,000 of them at public health centres. “In South Africa, this thing is like HIV because when HIV started here... we didn’t take it seriously until we saw people dying,” he said.
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