One in 200 people in two areas of Cape Town has been infected with Covid-19, provincial statistics showed on Tuesday.
In Khayelitsha, with a population of 401,000, just over 2,000 people have tested positive. It is just 66 days since the township recorded its first case.
Khayelitsha has 773 active cases , while in Klipfontein there are 1,032 active cases . The southern sub-district has 1,193 active cases , thanks to infection hotspots in Philippi and the Hout Bay suburb of Imizamo Yethu. The number of active cases in Cape Town went up by only 40, but this is likely to reflect the backlog of 18,000 test results, which brought a fresh plea to President Cyril Ramaphosa and health minister Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday from premier Alan Winde.
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