{"id":2758,"date":"2021-08-30T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-remains-covid-19-free"},"modified":"2021-08-30T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:35:50","slug":"lesotho-remains-covid-19-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-remains-covid-19-free","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho remains Covid-19 free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>MASERU \u2013 The 180 tests conducted for Coronavirus (Covid-19) between 5th and 9th May have all tested negative, leaving Lesotho as the only African county without<\/p>\n<p>the deadly virus. According to a press statement from the Ministry of Health (MoH) the samples were shipped to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa (SA) for testing.<\/p>\n<p>This brings Lesotho to a total of 216 negative results for all cases in the country, since the declaration of Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile on Monday the Minister of Health Hon.<\/p>\n<p>Nkaku Kabi announced the results of 48 suspected cases after samples were tested in SA. Kabi said one of the 48 suspects had been in contact with a South African national throughout<\/p>\n<p>the month of April who later tested positive of Covid-19 upon arrival in SA, however the local person tested negative even after being re-tested. \u201cThis<\/p>\n<p>simply says we must follow up on cases such as these ones as they keep coming up. This means there is also need to undertake research so as to establish<\/p>\n<p>exactly what is going on in this regard,\u201d he stated. MoH has vowed to continue carrying out active case finding through vigilant screening and testing all the suspected cases at all designated points of<\/p>\n<p>entry, at the health facilities and in the communities as well as monitoring of those on home quarantine. The National Emergency Command Centre (NECC) on Monday also announced that 93 South<\/p>\n<p>African workers from one of the construction companies under the second phase of Polihali dam in Mokhotlong were repatriated after they returned back to work without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>The NECC reported that these people entered the country via Butha-Buthe border and were found following a tip off from Basotho staying at the multi-million water project at Polihali<\/p>\n<p>camps. \u201cThe incident compelled the Mokhotlong authorities to send them back to South Africa,\u201d NECC statement noted. However 12 of these people had work<\/p>\n<p>permits and were therefore placed in quarantine facilities and not sent back. The District Administrator (DA) Mokhotlong Serame Linake was quoted saying \u201cEven though we value the relations<\/p>\n<p>between Lesotho and SA, we cannot risk the lives of fellow Basotho, we have immediately send them back home and the remaining 12 with work permits will be<\/p>\n<p>under 14 days quarantine. . NECC also stated that until now there is no unusual behavior in different hospitals that are likely to arouse the interest of<\/p>\n<p>health professionals with regard to Covid-19 issues. NECC further noted that health professionals currently placed in different parts of the country will work<\/p>\n<p>together with security forces in a bid to be proactive against the pandemic thereby taking rapid tests among others. \u201cIt is anticipated that the country will also start taking Covid-19 tests at the National Reference Laboratories (NRL) Maseru from next week,\u201d NECC mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. MASERU \u2013 The 180 tests conducted for Coronavirus (Covid-19) between 5th and 9th May have all tested negative, leaving Lesotho as the only African county without the deadly virus. According to a press statement from the Ministry of Health (MoH) the samples were shipped to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,246,270,245],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-covid-19","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lesotho remains Covid-19 free - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-remains-covid-19-free\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lesotho remains Covid-19 free\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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