Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday morning the country had not reached its hospital capacity, and the surge in Covid-19 cases might end soon.
During a virtual meeting, Mkhize said the country had also not reached its capacity in field hospitals across the country.
“We need to continue to track all the indicators, and ensure that our testing capacity reflects a realistic picture of our epidemiological status. We will only know for sure when there is a consistent decline over a period,” he said.Mkhize said the national health council met a few days ago and agreed that all bodies of people labelledHe said in the past two months there had been a downward trend in Covid-19 cases in the Western Cape.
“We are not out of the woods yet, but we haven’t got to the stage where we don’t have hospital space for patients.”
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