JUBA – South Sudan has announced that ten (10) more people in the world’s youngest nation have tested positive for coronavirus bringing the total to 45, the country’s high-level taskforce said in a statement on Friday.
The Undersecretary in the Ministry of health and spokesperson of the coronavirus High-Level Taskforce Dr. Makur Matur Koriom said out of the 138 test results released by the Public Health Laboratory, two positive cases are of truck drivers who were stopped at Nimule border.
Two others are domestic travelers who wanted to travel to the states, while eight are contacts of the sixth case, according to the High-Level Taskforce on Covid-19.
This raises the number of positive cases to 45 with no reported deaths and no recoveries.
“This raises an alarm and it sends a strong message to us that we need to do a lot,” said Dr. Makur Matur Koriom, the Undersecretary for the Ministry of Health, and spokesperson of the task force.
“The communities must understand the disease is here among us and that we must work hard to ensure that we minimize the risk of spreading the disease further particularly to areas that may be safe at the moment in the states and areas around Juba.”
Dr. Makur says the task force has directed quarantine of humanitarian workers for 14 days before they could be travel to the states.
“Health workers of Ministry of Health will be allowed to access that confining facility to monitor the staff, only then they will be allowed to travel to the states,” he added.
