The Covid-19 death toll in the Western Cape has reached 28, and Khayelitsha is now home to 11% of Cape Town's infections.
Three new fatalities were announced on Friday by premier Alan Winde. He said the victims — two women, aged 76 and 44, and a man of 31 — all had “significant comorbidities”.This is 161 higher than the number he reported 24 hours earlier, and Winde said he understood residents' anxiety as they saw a rapid escalation in cases.
So far in April, 150,847 people in the Western Cape had been screened for Covid-19 and 6,006 had been sent for testing, said Winde. The Cape Winelands has 107 cases , the Garden Route 60 , the Overberg 12 and the West Coast 10 . The Central Karoo has no cases, and 15 patients have not yet been allocated to a geographical area.
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