The first reported case of the Coronavirus alsocausing the disease known as ‘COVID19’‘COVID-19’ was reported in September
2019 in Wuhan, China (2020: Bennet) (Bennet, 2020). The problem with SARS-CoV-2 is the pressure
it puts on the healthcare system because of its high infection rate (Khoza: 345, 2019;
www.google.com) . Globally, sudden spikes in the confirmed COVID-19 cases are
severeserious, because there are limited resources to effectively manage and treat patients in
any of the current healthcare systems. As of February 2020, the World Health
Organization (who)(WHO) declared SARS-CoV-1COVID-19 a pandemic, asand one of the first biological
threats to modern society in the 21st century. In order for the South African
government to reduce the widespreadspread of SARS-CoV-2, travelling restrictions were
placed onimplemented in high-risk regions and border-crossingsborder crossings were closed from one country to
another. On the 28th of February 2020, South Africa experiencedreported the first COVID-19
case, and as of the 25th of March 2020, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases
increased to 702, dispitedespite efforts to contain the virus by puttingenforcing a ban on international
travel. The increase in confirmed cases may cause widespread panickpanic and anxiety,
witchwhich is why the public reliesneeds to rely on good, reliableverifiable information and data, now more than
ever. The COVID-19 disease is a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused
by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.