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Three more Covid-19 patients die as Western Cape numbers rise 8.8%

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Three more elderly people have died from Covid-19 in the Western Cape, bringing the provincial total to 38, premier Alan Winde said on Wednesday.

At 5pm on Tuesday, the province had 1,935 confirmed Covid-19 cases, up 8.8% on the previous day. Almost 1,300 cases were still active, and 84 people were in hospital.

Case numbers in the southern suburbs rose by just three to 212, but in the Tygerberg district they leapt by 37 , to 224. Khayelitsha, with 232 patients , is now the Cape Town health district with the second highest number of cases, after the western district with 408 ., the municipality surrounding Ceres, two hours north of Cape Town, Winde said cases had risen from 100 on Monday to 103 on Tuesday.

Ceres is at the centre of a rural Covid-19 hotspot, with at least 24 patients linked to officials at Warmbokkeveld prison just outside the town.

 

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