Mkhize says SA is moving towards a ‘devastating and decimating’ Covid-19 ‘storm’

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has said the opening up of more sectors of the economy and the easing of lockdown restrictions has resulted in the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country.

Mkhize said South Africa has 2,888 patients who are in isolation in general wards, 262 patients who are in high care, 539 patients who are in Intensive Care Unit, 218 patients who are on ventilators and 566 patients who are on oxygen. He said just over 50,000 community health care workers had been deployed across the country and had screened almost 20,000,000 South Africans.

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