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CITY CLINICS TO INTRODUCE COVID-19 TESTING BOOTHS

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The City of Cape Town will be rolling out testing booths for COVID-19 at 17 identified clinics across the city.

The locations are: Albow Gardens, Langa, Bloekombos, Wallacedene, Town Two, Doctor Ivan Toms, Ikhwezi, Kuyasa CDC, Manenberg, Delft South, St. Vincent, Gugulethu, Weltevreden Valley, Masiphumelele, Seawinds, Phumlani and Tafelsig.

The booths will aid efforts to increase the number of tests of vulnerable individuals who are at risk of more severe illness. It will also protect front-line healthcare workers.

The City identified the challenges relating to constraints around personal protective equipment (PPE) availability, and in addition, wanted to increase the number of patients tested for COVID-19.

The testing booths are designed for a single operator who will not need to don PPE whilst testing, although a surgical mask is still recommended.

The tester will use special external glove extensions to reach out and perform naso-pharyngeal swabs without any major difficulties. The external gloves are cleaned and disinfected and the next client is tested.

Liesl Smit
Liesl Smit
Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm

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