'Underlying health conditions' driving high Covid-19 death rate in Cape

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More than 65% of Covid-19 deaths in the Western Cape — which accounts for half of all deaths in the country — affected people with two or more underlying health conditions such as tuberculosis, HIV and diabetes.

“They have been acted upon. Now we must be vigilant to pick up any new cases that are coming through,” he said.

Winde said the provincial cabinet had on Monday approved a hotspot strategy to tackle the virus in Cape Town. “We have therefore adopted an evidence-based, data-led approach to our pandemic response that drills down below subdistrict level, to understand the transmission of the virus within particular geographical areas.”

 

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So are these people not dying in other provinces?

Those same underlying conditions are all over SA and probably worse in other provinces. The problem in WC is the recklessness nurtured by the liberal ideologues of the DA.

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