attended by Western Cape Premier Alan Winde, Western Cape health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo, head of health Dr Keith Cloete and the province’s director-general Harry Malila, it was tentatively confirmed that the province had entered the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 infections.
On average, the Western Cape’s public and private healthcare sectors consume 73 tons of oxygen every day. The province has five bulk oxygen tankers allocated for delivery each day to individual hospitals, and said it would monitor the use of oxygen carefully over the next few weeks.There are currently 7693 operational public sector beds for acute Covid-19 patients. However, this number differs as case surges increase and decline across districts.There are currently 3323 hospitalised Covid-19 patients – 1889 in public hospitals and 1434 in private facilities.
As of 6 January, 1547 mortuary shelves were occupied, and 1143 were available. There is currently capacity of 2690 shelves.
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