Capacity including all committed public and private sector beds is expected to be breached in the next four weeks
Gauteng and the Eastern Cape are set to run out of hospital beds for Covid-19 patients within the next month, said health minister Zweli Mkhize.
“We have now reached the surge. The storm that we have consistently warned South Africans about is now arriving,” he said in an address to the National Assembly on Wednesday.A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as exclusive Financial Times articles, ProfileData financial data, and digital access to the Sunday Times and Times Select.
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