Resurgence
WC Health Dept concerned about strain COVID resurgence has on hospitals
South Africa has passed the 100,000 mark in active cases, 14,386 of those are in Gauteng while close to 33,000 are in the Western Cape.
At least 1,679,114 people have died since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.
The country, much like many other nations across the globe, is in the grips of a second wave of the pandemic.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared parts of the Eastern Cape as hotspots, introducing stricter measures in Nelson Mandela Bay.
The country has officially entered the second wave of the virus with the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng being the key drivers of the virus.
The Health Minister is visiting the Garden Route in the Western Cape and will relay his findings to national structures.
Nelson Mandela Bay has emerged as an infection hotspot and residents have now been slapped with tighter curbs.
But even as the latest positive news about a vaccine was announced, with the Moderna candidate showing it confers immunity for at least three months, several countries marked new Covid-19 records.
This was recorded over a two-week period from late November to Wednesday.
The province now has over 10,000 active cases of COVID-19.
Coronavirus infections are multiplying at a rapid rate in the metro and there's concern the festive season will make things worse.
He said provincial and local governments were considering their own localised interventions and restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 in line with their respective powers.
The sector has been one of the industries hardest hit by the coronavirus.
Thirty-eight more deaths were recorded, 17 of these from the Eastern Cape, pushing the death toll to over 21,000.
This comes as the Cape metropole and other parts of the province experience a resurgence in coronavirus cases.
In the past 24-hour cycle, 3,198 more people contracted the disease pushing the national caseload past 785,000.
In the Western Cape, infections have risen by more than 50% on a weekly basis.
The provincial health department is now sounding the alarm with the Garden Route and the Cape Town Metro now officially seeing a resurgence of the pandemic.
The provincial health department said this is when weekly new cases rise by 20% and it's what some countries may call a second wave.