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Mkhize wants ‘dumped’ test samples’ courier company suspended

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Mkhize also said that he had ordered the deployment of health experts to bolster the Eastern Cape province in the fight against Covid-19.

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has called for the services of the courier company that lost a cargo of Covid-19 samples in transit on the N2 in the Eastern Cape, to be suspended.

Mkhize’s statement comes as the National Health Laboratory Services [NHLS] announced that it is taking legal action against the couriers Gibela Trade and Invest over the incident.NHLS said at the time that it had sent a manager to the site to collect the samples. The pathology services institution also said that it sent nurses to re-test the people whose samples were found on the roadside.

 

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