Bulawayo Family With 5 Members Who Tested Positive For COVID-19 Speaks About Stigmatisation
A family in Bulawayo has been in isolation for the past 23 days after 5 of its members tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus.
The family is made up of five patients, Case #16, #19, #20, #21 and #22, with the youngest patient being three years old.
The family has faced a lot of stigma since the members tested positive for COVID-19 in April, with people scared to come near them. One of the family members told Sunday News:
You find many people are scared to come near us, many run away after delivering food parcels by the gate. They would then call us later after they have gone that they left something at the gate.
Very few people actually talk to us and see us through the gate. I am afraid of the stigma that we will have after this episode, will people accept us?
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My daughter is always asking if we would be able to shop with everyone normally again. Will people know that we are the family that was positive?
Worse still our home address and telephone number were released in the media so it’s a tough one because some people already know who my children are.
When they go back to school how will the teachers react and other pupils because everyone now knows us?
Some of my college mates even assumed when we closed schools, I had the virus already! While the virus is something I got after we had closed schools already
