“I am not afraid of Covid 19”

The new year was not even two days old when 412 more medical personnel succumbed to the novel Covid-19 virus.
Theresa Coetzee, a home-base nurse at Centurion Hospice, was heart-broken as a few of her friends were among those who died. They became statistics, numbers that sprouted forth from President Cyril Ramaposa’s mouth. To Theresa, they were names. She worked with some of those nurses during her 22 years at Unitas Hospital, just a stone’s throw away from Centurion Hospice.
Theresa was on the frontline when the pandemic first hit South Africa – she put her own life at stake to look after patients who contracted the virus. “I was never afraid of Covid-19.
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