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  • 2020-12-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Yes, South Africa’s Rage school-leaving gatherings identified as Covid-19 super-spreader events (en)
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  • South Africa’s health department has identified the Matric Rage festival , a series of days-long parties attended by thousands of grade 12 school-leavers across the country, as Covid-19 super-spreader events. That’s according to several news reports and individual messages posted on Facebook and Instagram in early December 2020. All matrics returning from Rage are advised to quarantine for a 14-day period, reads one . There are already over 120 confirmed cases from KZN Matric Rage and many more awaiting test results. KZN is the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal. But Facebook’s fact-checking system – the company also owns Instagram – has flagged the posts as possibly false. Have Rage gatherings been identified by the department as super-spreader events? ‘Urge Rage attendees to test for Covid-19’ On 6 December the health department issued a media alert headlined: Urgent announcement: matric Rage gatherings identified as super-spreader events. The alert warns learners and parents that the department has identified a number of Covid-19 confirmed cases arising from super-spreader Rage matric events held in Ballito, Plettenberg Bay, Johannesburg and Jeffery’s Bay in late November and early December ( Note: According to organisers only the Ballito even took place, the others have reportedly been postponed. ) We now urge all the Rage attendees to immediately go into a 10 day quarantine period as per the Department of Health Guidelines on Quarantine and Isolation. We also urge that all Rage attendants test for COVID-19. We also encourage parents to take their children who have attended Rage for testing as soon as possible. The department posted the alert in two tweets . We confirm that we have now identified a number of #COVID19 confirmed cases from the following super spreaders rage matric events: • Rage Ballito - 27/11 - 04/12 • Rage Plettenberg Bay - 27/11-05/12 • Rage Johannesburg - 12/12-13/12 • Rage Jeffery’s Bay - 26/11-6/12 — Department of Health (@HealthZA) December 6, 2020 We urge all the Rage attendees to immediately go into a 10 day quarantine period as per @HealthZA Guidelines on Quarantine and Isolation. We also urge that all Rage attendants test for #COVID19 and that parents should take their children who have attended Rage for testing ASAP — Department of Health (@HealthZA) December 6, 2020 The warning was also published on the government’s coronavirus portal . (en)
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