On April 14, Health MEC Bandile Masuku visited Nasrec Expo Centre.
#COVID19 | MEC @bandilemasuku visited NASREC Expo Centre – one of the sites to be used as a facility for quarantining and isolating COVID-19 cases in the Province.
Various sites have been set up that will help ease the pressure from health facilities #GAUTENGCOVID19 pic.twitter.com/3uYhoYGTrg
— GautengGov (@GautengProvince) April 14, 2020
The area will be one of the special sites in Gauteng that will be used as a facility for both quarantining and isolating Covid-19 cases in the province.
Gauteng remains the epicentre of Covid-19 in South Africa.
Gauteng health department has set up various special sites that will help ease the pressure from health facilities and accommodate those who cannot self-isolate or quarantine at home.
Nasrec has a bed capacity of 2 250, the first phase of the project will be completed at the end of next week, and will be ready to accommodate 500 cases should the need arise.
[WATCH]
Hello from the Nasrec Expo Centre.
This is an area set aside to treat some of the #Covid19inSA patients in Gauteng.
The province is the epicentre of the virus in the country with 890 confirmed positive cases. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/9xFwiEYIpL— Chriselda 'Babes We Ndaba' Lewis (@Chriseldalewis) April 14, 2020
