{"id":114160,"date":"2020-03-28T13:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=114160"},"modified":"2020-03-28T13:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T11:40:52","slug":"woman-tested-positive-covid-19-no-longer-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/28\/woman-tested-positive-covid-19-no-longer-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who tested positive for Covid-19 no longer in Middelburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Dr Redge van Rensburg, spokesperson for local doctors, disclosed the information in reaction to a Facebook post by Dr Nadine Jooste, another local doctor and a <a title=\"blocked::https:\/\/protect-za.mimecast.com\/s\/-S3GC8qYxZTjwRXXFnwz0e?domain=mobserver.co.za\" href=\"https:\/\/protect-za.mimecast.com\/s\/-S3GC8qYxZTjwRXXFnwz0e?domain=mobserver.co.za\">www.mobserver.co.za<\/a> article wherein she was quoted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Dr Jooste claimed that the first positive Covid-19 case has been confirmed in Middelburg.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Dr Van Rensburg said that a woman, who resides in Middelburg during the week, was tested positive for Covid-19 in eMalahleni, where she works. She returned to her home in Johannesburg after testing positive.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">She received her results about 10 days ago, before the 21 day lockdown was announced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Dr Van Rensburg warned that just because there is no confirmed positive Covid-19 in Middelburg, it doesn\u2019t mean that no one has got the virus.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">He said that some people are carriers but do not show any symptoms. They can infect thousands without knowing it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: sans-serif;color: black;direction: ltr;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">He warned people to stay at home and to stay away from each other.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022The public is advised to call the coronavirus hotline on 0800 029 999\u201d with any suspected cases of corona, or to report or obtain information relevant to the pandemic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who tested positive for Covid-19 ten days ago, is currently in self quarantine in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":114009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[24040,24063,23726,24062,2815,21966,3275],"class_list":["post-114160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-corona","tag-corona-symptoms","tag-covid-19","tag-dr-van-rensburg","tag-johannesburg","tag-middelburg","tag-virus"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["corona","corona symptoms","Covid-19","dr van rensburg","Johannesburg","middelburg","virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114160","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=114160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}