Western Cape responsible for nearly all of SA's new Covid-19 cases

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The spread of Covid-19 in Cape Town continues to outpace the rest of the Western Cape and the country as a whole.

. This is 91% of the Western Cape's total of 6,194.Western Cape governmentAnd while cases have increased by 50% in SA in the past week, the Western Cape has seen a 68.45% rise and in Cape Town the number has grown by 71.4%.The per capita infection rate in Khayelitsha, the health subdistrict with the greatest concentration of Covid-19 cases, reached 208 per 100,000 on Tuesday.

In Cape Town's least-affected subdistricts — the southern, northern and eastern suburbs — it ranged between 104 and 106 per 100,000 people.

 

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Please look at the negligence of the CityofCT at their clinics based in Nlack communities and depots. You will be surprised. They are just as guilty for spreading covid19.

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