Health workers and those with comorbidities presenting at hospitals in the Western Cape will be bumped to the top of the list to get results for their Covid-19 tests.
The stats show that 66% of positive cases have been people younger than 55 with no comorbidities, but these cases require less support and mainly see patients recovering on their own at home.
Dr Keith Cloete, the head of the Western Cape department of health, said that “local transmission was speeded up in the province” ahead of the other provinces, and had its uptake during the period around April 14. “We are earlier than other provinces, but there is nothing different about us in terms of spread,” he said, adding that the province now has “a very detailed database on the clusters” that fuelled it.The virus had been concentrated in essential services clusters and care homes, and had then travelled back to the geographical areas where workers in those sectors live - areas that are “the most vulnerable communities in Cape Town”, said Cloete.
With detailed data becoming available, it has emerged that the southern part of Khayelitsha - near the N2 between Mew Way and Spine Road - was one hotspot, while the northern part of Baden Powell in Khayelitsha, linked to Mitchells Plain, was another. Winde said the “hotspot” strategy being adopted by the province was presented to the minister of health last Saturday, and now that the country is facing
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