Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has indicated the winter season and its health risks, including co-infections, will give the government a better picture of what it had to prepare itself for.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has indicated that the winter season and its health risks, including co-infections, will give the government a better picture of what it had to prepare itself for in terms of possible Covid-19 mortalities in the coming months.
“We keep improving our focus model as we improve the data coming from our test sites, so we will only be certain that any focus is correct when the numbers that we have fed in have actually been in place for a while and we observe the changing pattern of the epidemic,” he said. Mkhize said the government had not publicised any projections of deaths for SA, but that awareness had been issued that “if we do not manage to reduce the number of cases, then the death toll might increase and therefore we will go on to make preparations for that”.
"That, I think, is going to be very helpful in reducing the number of people who are going to overwhelm our systems,” Mkhize said. In Tanzania, positive Covid-29 cases jumped by 196 to 480 on Wednesday as the country was accused of lagging behind in enforcing preventative measures and of allowing places of worship and shopping centres to remain open without restrictions.
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