{"id":113809,"date":"2020-03-26T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=113809"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:09:57","slug":"coronavirus-screening-middelburg-toll-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/26\/coronavirus-screening-middelburg-toll-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus screening at the Middelburg Toll Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday morning officials stopped motorists using the Middelburg Toll Plaza for screening.<br \/>\nThe province currently has eight confirmed cases of the novel virus.<\/p>\n<p>MEC of Health, Sasekani Manzini, was also on the forefront of testing motorists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113812\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/co-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/co-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/co-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The MEC said the department decided to conduct the tests at one of the province&#8217;s busiest toll plazas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in the province are worried, so we decided to conduct the screening so that those with symptoms can get tests at the hospital,\u201d said MEC Manzini.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists with symptoms will be transported to the hospital where more tests will be conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mpumalanga Department of Health has beefed up coronavirus screening for travellers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":113813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23676,23683,24036,24038,24037,10010,12898,15567,2023,10333],"class_list":["post-113809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-south-africa","tag-coronavirus-screening-on-n4","tag-health-officials-screen-motorists-at-middelburg-toll-plaza","tag-health-officials-screen-motorists-on-n4","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-traffic","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Coronavirus","Coronavirus in South Africa","coronavirus screening on N4","health officials screen motorists at middelburg toll plaza","health officials screen motorists on n4","local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","traffic","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}