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Zimbabwe: 18 Ubh Workers Test COVID-19 Positive
9 July 2020
The Herald (Harare)
By Bulawayo Bureau
Eighteen health workers in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) have tested positive for Covid-19 after a man admitted as a patient earlier tested positive.
Affected staff members were placed in self-isolation at home after a man admitted to the hospital tested positive for Covid-19.
The exact number of health workers who came into contact with him was not immediately availed, but results of 18 of them came positive.
Recently, 68 health workers at the hospital were forced to self-isolate at home after a 79-year-old woman who tested positive died at the referral facility, but their status could not be established immediately.
Last month, 14 nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital who were part of 197 isolating at home tested positive for Covid-19 after coming into contact with patients who were infected with Covid-19...
Zimbabwe: 18 Ubh Workers Test COVID-19 Positive
9 July 2020
The Herald (Harare)
By Bulawayo Bureau
Eighteen health workers in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) have tested positive for Covid-19 after a man admitted as a patient earlier tested positive.
Affected staff members were placed in self-isolation at home after a man admitted to the hospital tested positive for Covid-19.
The exact number of health workers who came into contact with him was not immediately availed, but results of 18 of them came positive.
Recently, 68 health workers at the hospital were forced to self-isolate at home after a 79-year-old woman who tested positive died at the referral facility, but their status could not be established immediately.
Last month, 14 nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital who were part of 197 isolating at home tested positive for Covid-19 after coming into contact with patients who were infected with Covid-19...