Its first case was reported on Saturday in Beaufort West. Laingsburg and Prince Albert — the other municipalities in the Central Karoo — still have no recorded cases of the virus. Covid19SA
Its first case was reported on Saturday in Beaufort West. Laingsburg and Prince Albert — the other municipalities in the Central Karoo — still have no recorded cases of the virus.Kannaland and Cederberg are the other two municipalities to remain free of Covid-19 in the Western Cape, which is the worst-affected province.
On Saturday, as Western Cape cases rose by 333 to 4,917, premier Alan Winde and his team were locked in talks with health minister Zweli Mkhize about how to contain the spread of the virus. Almost 89% of provincial cases are in Cape Town, which accounts for half of all cases nationally. Khayelitsha is the health subdistrict with the most cases .
But it is the rate of increase that has alarmed Mkhize. In Cape Town as a whole, cases have increased by 82% in the last week and by 240% in the last fortnight. In Khayelitsha, the weekly increase is 90% and the fortnightly increase 333%, while in the neighbouring Tygerberg subdistrict the increases are 97% and 440%, respectively.
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