Careless words could end in tragedy

A cough and nervous neighbours — that was all it took for health authorities to storm the home of a man who had recently returned from the US.

The Mdantsane man was reported to the ward councillor by a member of the ward committee and his neighbours, and the health MEC immediately assembled a team, which included doctors, to investigate and make sure no-one left the house...

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