The Western Cape was initially considered to be the country's epicentre of the pandemic, but health authorities are now cautiously optimistic it has passed its peak of infections.
“We hit the peak [in the province] on June 24 at a level of 52 deaths a day, and since then it’s been gradually declining ,” Piet Streicher of Pandemic Data and Analytics said during a radio interview on CapeTalk.
The Western Cape was initially considered to be the country's epicentre of the pandemic, but health authorities are now cautiously optimistic it has passed its peak of infections.“There is actually an advantage to get through it first. That means the pandemic will be over for us before all the other provinces.
Provincial head of health Dr Keith Cloete said this week that available data indicated the province reached its peak at the end of June and start of July. “In the public and private sectors of critical care there has been a recent decline. They have more capacity now over the past two to three weeks, rather than going up.”
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