Covid-hit province will try to persuade cabinet that tough new curbs will help
The province has begun the work of adapting its quarantine site at Nasrec, near Soweto, to a field hospital as well as building another one at the Tshwane Events Centre. The two sites, along with others, will provide an additional 4,500 beds by the end of July.
"The SANDF will set up field hospitals as they do when they go to battle and it will serve the same purposes, so we will use the same structures which they put up, which are quite resilient and insulated." "Yes, there is a sizeable number of workers who get infected at work, who get infected by patients. However, most of them have actually gotten infected where they stay in the community.
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