Gauteng is not likely to see a jump in Covid-19 cases and deaths after the recent looting and civil unrest, says Prof Shabir Madhi.
, who owns a funeral parlour in Soweto, said they had witnessed a decrease in burials.
Mabindisa said two weeks ago they were doing more than 20 funerals a day, but that number had since decreased to between 16 and 18. During the unrest, looters made off with at least 50 coffins, worth an estimated R300,000, when Mabindisa’s funeral parlour was targeted. And it was difficult to obtain more coffins, he said. Mabindisa said now that the N3 from Durban to Gauteng was open, they could get more.
Though only four of the 37 cemeteries in the city are open for new grave sites, Johannesburg City Parks spokesperson Reggie Moloi said there was more than enough space.“We are already at 4,000 burials for July alone. It is more than June, because in that month we had 3,500 burials. We have been very busy.”Madhi, however, warned that KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape may see a spike in cases in the next two weeks.
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