By A Correspondent- Police officers who attended to a 52-year-old who works at Mater Dei hospital and had been ordered to self-isolate after she attended to the 79-year-old man who died and tested positive for COVID-19 posthumously have been sent home.

8 Police officers were indirectly and directly in contact with the nurse aide who came in to report her tenant hours after she had been ordered to self-isolate. One of the officers who sat on the bench with her went to work complaining of flu and was sent home.

This was revealed in a memo at the police station seen by the publication which reads in part:…

In Hillside policing area, there is a confirmed positive case of COVID 19. The patient is known as ….national reg number ….. aged 52… residing at …….and contactable on …..

The Bulawayo city council went to her place of residence to test her on 13/04/2019 after they received a phone call from HQ COVID 19 Harare that some of the employees at Matei Dei Hospital who had contact with the decessed were tested. The results came out on 14/4/2020 indicating that she was COVID 19 positive. The patient revealed that she attended to the patient who died several times while doing her duties.

The patient revealed that she visited ZRP Hillside police wth the intention to solve an issue with her tenant on 8/4/2020 and in the office there were several officers before she proceeded to the charge office where there were also a number of officers.

On April 14, the officer who had sat with the nurse aide on the bench went to the ZRP Bulawayo Camp Hospital complaining of a flu. He was given sick duty for three days and is supposed to report for duty on April 17, 2020.

Among the police members the patient got in contact with, so far, it is Constable ****** who is not feeling well. There are chances that same could have had body contact with the patient although it was not revealed. There is need to self-isolate the concerned members.

Meanwhile yet another nurse violated self-isolation measures and was seen at a shopping mall in Bulawayo after testing positive for the virus.