Bluff omitted from screenings [LETTER]
Neighbouring suburbs and residential nodes such as Montclair, Amanzimtoti and Umlazi have been screened.
EDITOR – The Bluff Ratepayers Association (BRA) would like to know why to date the Bluff has been excluded from Covid-19 screenings conducted by the Department of Health.
Neighbouring suburbs and residential nodes such as Montclair, Amanzimtoti and Umlazi have been screened. The association rejects the argument put forward that there is little evidence to justify screenings on the Bluff. On the contrary, the association believes that many of those who work in the shops on the Bluff live in outlying areas from which they may be importing the virus.
As has been noted in the case of the Oxford store in Tara Road on the Bluff, a worker tested positive. It could well be the case that such a worker missed the screening tests in the area in which he or she resides. Yet because the Bluff has not been screened that worker’s infection has gone unnoticed while infecting others. Forewarned is forearmed.
JASON JOHNSON
Bluff Ratepayers Association.
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