“The department of health took over and controlled everything. They have given people educational pamphlets and instructions. We did offer the lodge as a place for high-risk employees to be quarantined, but the health department said they could go home and be in isolation.
Provincial authorities would also keep a close eye on tourists in the province. The provincial government was establishing who these individuals were. Gomba said she did not know why the tourist, who had left Pietermaritzburg, where he was tested, had been allowed to travel, as he had been showing flu-like symptoms.She was not sure whether members of the group had come through OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg or Durban's King Shaka International Airport, or whether they had been screened on entering the country.