Gauteng MEC for Health, Bandile Masuku at the Nasrec quarantine / isolation site in Nasrec, 3 July 2020. Picture: Neil McCartney
The province is now the country’s epicentre of the virus and is expected to require approximately 11,000 ICU beds, but an expert believes Covid-19 related deaths should begin to spike within a week’s time. He said the province was recording between 4,800 to 5,000 daily cases and that more effort would be put in place to stop or reduce transmissions and disrupt the spread of the disease.
“In Gauteng, the curve is steep and we will see the deaths in a week from now which will rise to levels significantly higher to the Western Cape, unless in this period there is a treatment coming out to lower the mortality rate.” “You don’t have to test everyone but understand that this area is at risk. Try to screen if you can’t test. Switch to testing frontline workers and prioritise them as they are the protection of the health services, but without neglecting the hotspot areas. I don’t have a sense in Gauteng that they are intensively focused on separating the infected and uninfected and I don’t think we are good with dealing with social places which are high risk and how to manage them,” Van den Heever said.
“We have now evolved beyond the issue to have a bed management team, which is daily monitoring where the empty beds would be and how to direct traffic and flow of patients. It is a dedicated system we need to put into place. It lessens the panic. When the [emergency services] people know that they have to pick up a patient who is a Covid-19 suspect, they will know that they need to go to a particular area.
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