Western Cape starts rationing Covid-19 tests
Province seeks R2.5bn budget for combating Covid-19
20 May 2020 - 18:49
The Western Cape health department is changing its Covid-19 testing strategy, and will now prioritise high-risk groups such as health-care workers and people in old age homes, it emerged on Wednesday.
The move to ration testing follows growing delays at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) which has been unable to keep up with demand as SA’s Covid-19 epidemic deepens...
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