Businesses around Middelburg Mall’s industrial node have reported a dramatic increase in possible Covid-19 cases, after two local companies confirmed positive test results on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A local doctor told www.mobserver.co.za<\/strong> that they’ve experienced a sudden spike in Covid-19 testing since Thursday, though only one case has thus far been confirmed by the Department of Health.<\/p>\n Middelburg’s private pathology practices has also confirmed that only one positive Covid-19 infection has been reported to the authorities from their side for now.<\/p>\n According to the doctor, the outcome of the new test results can be expected from Saturday onward.<\/p>\n Due to ethical reasons the names of the infected patients and companies affected, cannot be made public without explicit consent.<\/p>\n Residents with symptoms should contact their doctors for test referrals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Middelburg’s private pathology practices has also confirmed that only one positive Covid-19 infection has been reported to the authorities from their side for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":108012,"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":[23750,23726,1267,21966,24745,6205,24397,24391,6419,24396],"class_list":["post-122812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-hospital","tag-middelburg","tag-pathology","tag-positive","tag-screening","tag-sick","tag-temperature","tag-testing"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["corona virus","Covid-19","hospital","middelburg","pathology","positive","screening","sick","temperature","testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122812","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=122812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}