The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is over 100,000 with deaths numbering almost 2,300.
who are being hospitalised, which indirectly indicates there are huge amounts of community transmission that's taking place right now.
"That's really unfortunate because this is something that certainly was under our control, both in Gauteng as well as the Western Cape and the rest of the country. "Irrespective of what level of lockdown, what is really fueling this sort of rapid transmission of the virus and consequently bringing our healthcare systems very much to the point of almost collapsing right now is the behaviour of South Africans.
"The poor adherence when it comes to the non-pharmaceutical interventions, independent of whether someone is at risk of developing severe COVID or not -- we need to understand that even if people are not at risk for developing severe disease because they're otherwise healthy; they are very responsible for the spread this virus," he said.
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