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The Department of Basic Education said it would be assisting the Eastern Cape Health Department after 200 learners and four staff members at one school hostel tested positive for Covid19.
The Health Department said it has sent clinicians, including nurses and doctors, to the Makaula Senior Secondary School in KwaBhaca, formerly Mount Frere, where the outbreak occurred.
Spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, said this was so that those who came into contact with the 204 people who have tested positive can be traced, screened and tested so that the spread of the virus is curtailed.
“The Department is also looking into possibly converting the hostel into an isolation facility as another measure of preventing the further spread of the coronavirus,” he said.
Kupelo said those that have tested positive are in isolation within the Alfred Nzo District Municipal area.
“Initially 24 learners tested positive last week while 180 others, which include hostel assistants, tested positive this week,” he said.
The Provincial Health Department repeated its appeal to the public to continue adhering to the lockdown regulations by practising good personal hygiene, maintaining social distancing and wearing face masks at all times when out in public.
