This according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, who gave a situational update regarding Covid-19 in the country during a virtual briefing on Wednesday morning.
“Around June 7, the numbers in the Western Cape started taking a downward turn. We have [been tracking infections] for the past two months now and we have continuously had fewer numbers of positive tests per day in that province. For a long time we didn’t talk about it because we wanted to observe what this phenomenon was, but we are able to confirm that the numbers of infections and admissions anticipated in the Western Cape did not materialise ... even the number of deaths,” Mkhize said.
“It’s slowly tapering off, but it’s not easy to say that the province is decreasing in cases. We are concerned about this because we think this is where the real pressure of Covid-19 will be felt. Although we feel [the pressure] in Gauteng, it will be even stronger in KwaZulu-Natal,” Mkhize said. “While we are cautiously optimistic, it is still too early for us to make definite conclusions regarding the observed decline. We will need another two or three weeks to see if this is indeed a downward trend.”
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