The coronavirus “is relentlessly taking the lives' of people in the province, premier Oscar Mabuyane said on Tuesday.
Seventy-five South African National Defence Force military health services personnel have been deployed to hospitals across the Eastern Cape to help fight the spread of Covid-19, premier Oscar Mabuyane announced on Tuesday.Mabuyane said President Cyril Ramaphosa had granted the province's leadership request to deploy the military “to reinforce our frontline forces”.
“The death of our people is the most painful reality that we wished would never happen, but the virus is hitting us hard right now and it is hitting in our families, where it hurts the most,” he said. “It is relentlessly taking the lives of parents, colleagues, friends, wives, husbands, children, relatives and elders of our community at a rate that requires adjustment of plans to stop the loss of lives.
“We do not want the number of casualties to rise into thousands, as we have seen in other parts of the world.”
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