Mkhize: Shortage of coronavirus testing agents
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize says there is currently a shortage of agents to test for coronavirus at people’s homes.
Mkhize told SABC on Wednesday there have been a total of 12 000 South Africans tested for coronavirus.
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"12 000 tests is not a small number, it's a good start, where are starting but what we are seeing is constraints in terms of availability of free agents and also trying to decentralise testing.”
He added that the majority of those who have been tested did so at private laboratories.
"Most of the people of the people who have been exposed have got means and those who have been travelling abroad and so they can pay for it.
"So 10 000 of the tests that have been done, have been done at private laboratories which means they could afford."
There were 709 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday morning.