Africa-Press – Eswatini. Although the ministry of health was cautious in its statement, the number of recorded cases for last week have now exceeded the cautionary stage.
This follows that seven people tested positive for COVID-19 between February 18 and 23, against the average five that minister of health Mduduzi Matsebula said in a statement last week was not yet cause for panic.
However, the latest figures, according to director of Health Services Dr Velephi Okello, is proof that the public is not yet safe from the virus.
Okello yesterday explained that all seven were scattered between the four regions in the country.
Last week government cautioned the nation on the threat of the virus, having monitored flu-like symptom cases being on the rise, and following the outbreak in Namibia and Botswana, who both reported that the cases were on the increase.
Four cases were confirmed last week, which now brings the number to 11 over the two weeks.
This has now taken the total number of cases to 75 213 since the virus was first recorded in the country IN 2020, while 73 780 recovered according to Okello.
She highlighted that no one was currently admitted, but there were only six active cases with five recoveries.
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“People who have died from the virus were 1 427. The public is not yet safe at all as we are still finding new cases when we conduct tests,” said Okello who clarified that it is not everytime where a patient will be tested for Covid-19 if they visit a hospital with flue like symptoms.
Explaining this, she said the common flue may have symptoms, even more severe than a person with Covid-19, hence the confusion.
“Most people have taken the first dosage of the vaccine so they will experience lighter symptoms since the virus has weakened in their systems,” she said.
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