Nelson Mandela Bay interim mayor Thsonono Buyeye has announced that the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium would no longer be used as a Covid-19 isolation facility from Monday.
He said this at the stadium during a media briefing on Thursday.
Buyeye said that closure of the facility was as a result of the decline in the number of patients entering the facility.
He also added that the municipality did not see it as financially wise to continue using the stadium as a field hospital.
“We have seen the numbers of patients going down drastically and the argument was that the cost of running such a facility vs the people who are housed here was starting to become unjustifiable,” said Buyeye.
“Also, the fact that as the city, through our partnership with the business community, the VW plant is available and that it is also not housing as many people as expected.
