A senior army officer in
Swaziland (eSwatini) who tested positive for the coronavirus infected at least
eight other soldiers when he discharged himself from hospital and returned to work.
The eSwatini Observer reported the man who has
not been named was admitted at the Lubombo Referral Hospital. He returned to
work and now eight soldiers are admitted to the clinic at Phocweni Army
Barracks with coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Observer
reported, ‘Sources claimed that the senior officer recently escaped from the
hospital and returned to work, an act that is believed to have exposed the rest
of his colleagues to the virus.’
Swaziland has been in partial
lockdown because of coronavirus since 27 March 2020. Soldiers were ordered not
to return home during lockdown and stay at their barracks. The officer reportedly
defied this order.
In other coronavirus
developments in Swaziland:
RESIDENTS HAVE expressed their fears
over a plan to turn Mavuso Trade and Exhibition Centre in Manzini into a quarantine
centre for COVID-19 positive patients.
A MAN WHO tested positive for coronavirus in the Shiselweni region
has gone missing
and the Ministry of Health are appealing for information about his whereabouts.
MORE THAN E85 million in cash has been made available to the National Disaster
Management Agency’s (NDMA) disposal since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. About half has already been spent.
AS OF 11 May there had been two deaths and 175 people
tested positive for coronavirus, according to official Ministry of Health figures.
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