Watch below as acting Health Director for the Amajuba District, Mthokozisi Khumalo, walks the Newcastle Advertiser through the steps that are taken when members of the public are tested for Covid-19 in the Department’s mobile testing station.

The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) handed the brand new testing station over to the Amajuba District Department of Health on April 20, to enable health workers to carry out tests in the areas where people have been identified as possible cases during the door-to-door screenings.

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This week, district mayor and head of Amajuba’s Covid-19 Response Team, Dr Musa Ngubane, said that tests taken in the mobile station, so far, have all been negative for the coronavirus. He further announced that Amajuba District currently has no active Covid-19 cases, as all seven people who tested positive in the District have made full recoveries and have all been discharged.