Following Thursday's frenzy to isolate and identify what proved not to be a case of Ebola on South African soil, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi had given the assurance the country has the facilities to meet the tropical disease head on.
Hospitals in each province had been designated to deal with any future scares, he said.
Thursday's scare saw a pregnant Guinean woman, who arrived in South Africa on July 28, being moved to Charlotte
Mazeke hospital in Johannesburg from the nearby Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, where she was admitted August 11, for tests after she exhibited a temperature of 30 degrees C during labour.
She tested negative for the deadly disease, which typically kills within eight or nine days.
For more on this story see The Citizen, August 16, 2014
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