Premier

The increase in the number of new laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Western Cape is as anticipated in the epidemiological modelling done at both national and provincial levels to date. We are on the upward part of the curve as per the nature of the pandemic and are expecting to see case numbers increase more rapidly, with associated increases in hospitalisation and deaths. The transmission has been concentrated around essential services clusters (which have been permitted to operate under all levels of lockdown), care homes and in geographical areas where people who work in these clusters live and this has mostly been in the most vulnerable communities in Cape Town. Our hotspot intervention strategy focusses our combined efforts in these targeted areas with the focus to protect vulnerable people who are at high risk, and to prevent deaths.