Coronavirus spread in Western Cape in need of urgent intervention - Dhlomo Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Saturday descended on the Western Cape as pressure mounted on the national government to intervene in the coastal province.
He was in the province ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit on Friday. The president would also be going to the Eastern Cape and other provinces.“The increasing number of infected people in the province is alarming and calls for drastic measures to be put in place to push back the frontiers of the spread of the virus in the province,” said Dhlomo.
Dhlomo said the City of Cape Town’s planning to contain Covid-19 was poor, “given the number of people who tested positive in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Witzenberg”.“The ANC therefore urges the relevant authorities in the province to apply through Premier Alan Winde for special status to Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs national Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to put the Western Cape back on level 5 to get a stronger grip to curb the spread,” said Smith.
“Our discussion was how do we look at those hot spots. Therefore, what we are doing is focusing on the hot spots and management tools around the hot spots because there are lots of municipalities in our province that are reducing the number of infections,” said Winde. He recently asked the International Monetary Fund not to give South Africa the relief funds if it would be used in a racially discriminatory way.
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