The Witzenberg municipality, comprising the five towns of Ceres, Tulbagh, Wolseley, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet, has recorded 100 positive coronavirus tests.
Cape Town – Increased screening and contact-tracing efforts in the Witzenberg municipality, a rural area with a large community of seasonal farmworkers, has led to it becoming a Covid-19 hot spot, with 100 new cases being reported today.
Explaining the Western Cape's growing number of cases compared with other provinces, Premier Alan Winde said on Tuesday it “has identified clusters or 'hot spots' and has acted swiftly to screen and test around these hot spots, which has resulted in a higher proportion of positive tests”."So what is the readiness of the employers, the farmers, he shopowners to prevent the spread? Because in one facility, for example, 26 cases that came out, they ended up infecting the community.
Commenting on the figures in the Witzenberg municipality, Winde said: "We have been concentrating our screening and contact-tracing efforts in this area since the first cluster of cases emerged to make sure that we identify every single person identified with Covid-19."
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