by Clemans Miyanicwe
THE primary healthcare supervisor at Khorixas District Hospital, Auguste Day, has shot down rumours that two tourists were bought in to the hospital to be tested for the novel coronavirus on Monday.
Day
said on Kaisames FM – formerly the Damara Nama radio service – that
nobody had been brought to the hospital at Khorixas with symptoms of
being infected with the coronavirus.
“There is no coronavirus.
There was nobody brought in with symptoms. Our hospital is not under
lockdown,” an irate Day said on air.
Day warned people not to
spread false news, saying it was putting people under stress and that
when people are under stress their immune systems weaken and sickness
can be picked up easily.
“Please don’t spread rumours. Stop spreading useless lies,” Day warned.
Day
said the hospital had to answers numerous calls asking about who had
been bought in from Ani#Chab settlement in the Sorri Sorris area.
“Instead of attending to patients we have to answer calls,” Day said.
Earlier
on Monday a voice recording of a man warning that two tourists had been
brought from Ani#Chab to the Khorixas hospital to be tested for the
coronavirus was shared on social media.
At the only supermarket
at Khorixas, OK Foods, the store’s manager, Eddie Viljoen, said most of
its hand sanitiser stock was sold out.
Dettol antiseptic soap was also nearly sold out, and Viljoen said the shop was struggling to get more of the soap in stock.
OK
Foods at Khorixas has provided hand sanitiser to its staff and also
shoppers, with shoppers further provided with soap to clean their
shopping trolleys and cashiers wearing gloves.
Viljoen informed The Namibian that there was a large demand for gloves, but the shop would receive it only by Tuesday.
