Western cape health department
WC Dept of Health appoints investigator to probe UCT rape allegations
The student took to social media claiming she was raped by the member of staff.
Two patients and a police officer were killed in the incident on Saturday night by another patient.
On Monday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 1,954 new cases.
According to Western Cape Head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, genomic data and PCR test data suggest that these new sublineages may be causing an increasing share of reported cases in the country, particularly in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
The Western Cape Health Department said there had been an overall decrease of 10% in cases in the Cape metro over the past week and a drop of 16% in rural areas.
This has been revealed in a reply in the provincial parliament by the province's Health MEC, Nomafrench Mbombo.
Medical experts said that while there were 14% more cases during the fourth wave, hospital admissions were currently at 63% of the third wave peak.
Provincial Health Department bosses gave an overview of their management of the pandemic, saying that health facilities were coping and most COVID-19 cases picked up at hospitals were incidental.
The province is currently in the fourth wave of infections, with a high number of active cases driven by the Omicron variant.
Health Department spokesperson, Mark van der Heever, said that they had drawn on the lessons learnt from the first three waves.
The province's head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that over the past few days there'd been an increase in cases.
Since opening up immunisations to those aged 12 to17, the Western Cape Health Department said that it was encouraging to see young people willing to get their vaccines.
Tight lockdown regulations have shown alcohol sales bans result in lower trauma cases.
The Western Cape Health Department's Dr Saadiq Kariem believes that COVID-19 fatigue, complacency and recent protests by anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 denialists is contributing to the lower than expected numbers of people presenting themselves at vaccine sites.
However, with a fourth wave predicted in December, officials are warning against complacency, as they're already seen a decline in the demand for vaccines.
The undertaker has been fined for overloading his truck and another vehicle had to be dispatched before he was allowed to continue his journey.
The provincial Health Department's Dr Saadiq Kariem said that the province would only have exited the third wave once it reached a daily case load of 530 cases a day.
Officials said that cars, taxis with passengers and even buses could make their way through the five lanes under a massive marquee.
Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo said in December alone, 53 medical workers died in the province. She said that infections and fatalities were down, adding that vaccinations were to thank for this.