-The Souillac Hospital is temporarily closed to the public following the detection of positive COVID-19 cases and necessary measures are being undertaken so as to sanitise and clean the hospital. In the meantime, essential services will still be offered to the public in a building adjacent to the hospital and a youth centre in the vicinity.
-The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, made this announcement, this evening, at the daily press briefing of the National Communication Committee on COVID-19, at the Treasury Building in Port Louis. Dr Catherine Gaud was also present.
-Results from PCR tests carried out yesterday revealed five new local cases as follows: four through the contact tracing exercise, and all are linked to the Curepipe cluster; and one person who works as nursing officer at the Souillac Hospital in the dialysis department and who lives in Chemin Grenier.
-Following the contact tracing exercise and COVID-19 testing at the Souillac Hospital today, 18 additional positive COVID-19 cases were identified: 14 staff members of the Souillac Hospital; one dialysis patient; and three relatives of the nursing officer.
-Concerned dialysis patients as well as the staff working with the nursing officer are quarantined in a hotel.
-A sanitary corridor has been installed at the Souillac Hospital so that dialysis patients can continue to be treated before going back to the quarantine centre.
-Dr Jagutpal also dwelt on the contact tracing exercise and explained how it is carried out.
Death of patient not due to COVID-19
-As for Dr Gaud, she informed that the diabetic male patient, aged 48, who contracted the COVID-19 in Madagascar and who was repatriated to receive treatment, passed away today following a myocardial infarction and an ischemia.
-Two patients currently receiving treatment are still in a severe state and the medical staff is still closely monitoring their situations.
-She also explained how tests are done following the contact tracing exercise and when positive persons are identified in quarantine centres.
-Dr Gaud appealed to every person who recently went to Souillac Hospital or who thinks has been in contact with a positive COVID-19 person to call the hotline 8924 or to go to a testing centre at the earliest so as to ensure that they have not been contaminated.
Source: Government Information Service
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