Saturday's statistics showed a considerable jump in new infections over the past 24 hours.
As of 1pm on 16 May, the Western Cape recorded 5 263 active cases of Covid-19 with a total of 8 507 confirmed cases and 3 097 recoveries.
"There are a number of reasons for this large jump: as we have indicated before, the curve of the virus is moving faster in the Western Cape as a result of entrenched community transmission in some of the Western Cape's hotspot areas. The premier attended a virtual meeting of the President Cyril Ramaphosa's Coordinating Council on Saturday. The focus of the discussion was around the response to Covid-19 across the provinces, and the move towards level 3 of the lockdown.
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