Although the official numbers of screening were initially unavailable the Steve Tshwete Municipality has provided the following statistics about the screening process in Middelburg and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
Monday screenings:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022On Monday 98 people were screened at the N11 roadblock at Loskop Dam. Tuesday screenings: <\/strong><\/p>\n On Tuesday 165 were screened at the N11 roadblock while 361 people were screened at the Stoffberg roadblock, showing a worrying trend of unrestricted traveling in the Stoffberg area. Wednesday screenings:<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday 76 people were screened at the N11 roadblock with 190 screenings at the Stoffberg blockade. Provincially, around 5000 Mpumalanga residents are screened every hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Middelburg\u2019s home to home Covid-19 screenings are going fantastically well, showing that residents have succeeded in keeping the virus at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":120522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527","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=120527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022Altogether 256 people were also screened at the Stoffberg roadblock.
\n\u2022At the homeless shelter managed by the municipality, 21 people were screened.Monday’s household screening count was 592 homes with a total of 1956 residents screened in the areas targeted namely Doornkop, Kwazamokuhle, Mhluzi and Nasaret.
\nFive households rejected being screened.<\/p>\n
\nAt the homeless shelter 23 people were screened with two referred for Covid-19 testing.
\nOn Tuesday 535 homes and 1891 residents were screened.<\/p>\n
\nSeven residents of the homeless shelter were screened while 55 of them were given the annual flu-injection.
\nAt the fire station 25 employees were screened with 10 receiving the H1N1 vaccine.
\nWednesday\u2019s household tally was 674 with 2094 residents screened.
\nOnly three households refused to be screened.<\/p>\n