Third wave of Covid-19 infections: The Western Cape peaked.
Western Cape, South Africa (06 August 2021) – The Western Cape’s third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has peaked.
This is according to the provincial department of health.
Dr Keith Cloete, head of this department, says people can’t let their guard down as there’s still a rapid increase in community transmission and hospitalisations.
“There’s a lot of reports of household clusters, a cluster in a homeless shelter for instance, several workplace clusters, lots of family clusters, school clusters as well because some people have come back to school, infections are out in the community,” Cloete said.
“Hospitalisation has continued to increase in the public sector but the private sector has already reached the plateau. Admissions have also slowed down, it’s not increased as rapidly as before, and we went into the past weekend on the back of that,” he added.
Covid figures released on Wednesday showed that the Western Cape currently have over 39,000 active cases. More than 3,600 people are in hospital being treated for the virus. The province sees an average of 3004 new cases each day.
There is also evidence the vaccines are doing their job, and the rise in infections driven by the more transmissible Delta variant may be levelling off.
As specified by the Western Cape’s vaccine dashboard, more than 1,1 million people registered for a Covid-19 jab.
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