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Western cape health department

'Keep wearing masks where applicable like crowded, poorly ventilated spaces'

By Paula Luckhoff

The Western Cape Health Department's Dr Saadiq Kariem details when voluntary mask-wearing is advisable.

  • Parts of the Vredendal Hospital were damaged by fire on 29 May 2022. Picture: Supplied

    WC authorities probing cause of fire at Vredendal Hospital

    The provincial health department said that staff and patients had been temporarily evacuated when a fire broke out at the facility during the early hours of Sunday morning.

    27 days ago
  • FILE: UCT's Jameson Hall. Picture: Supplied.

    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.

    37 days ago
  • FILE:  Somerset Hospital in Cape Town. Picture: Lindsay Dentlinger/Eyewitness News

    CT hospital shooting suspect had no prior history of psychological issues - dept

    Two patients and a police officer were killed in the incident on Saturday night by another patient.

    48 days ago
  • FILE: Two patients with COVID-19, one (L) breathing in oxygen, in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    Most new COVID-19 cases being reported in Gauteng, KZN and WC

    On Monday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 1,954 new cases.

    61 days ago
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    Two new Omicron subvariants in SA but no need to panic, says WC Health Dept

    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.

    73 days ago
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    WC Health Dept seeing slow decline in COVID-19 cases

    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.

    80 days ago
  • FILE: Groote Schuur Hospital in the Western Cape. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News.

    WC hospitals returning to normal as COVID-19 cases stabilise

    This has been revealed in a reply in the provincial parliament by the province's Health MEC, Nomafrench Mbombo.

    111 days ago
  • FILE: Two patients with COVID-19, one (L) breathing in oxygen, in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    WC Health Dept: Data suggests Omicron less severe than Delta

    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.

    163 days ago
  • FILE: Two patients with COVID-19, one (L) breathing in oxygen, in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    Western Cape passes peak of COVID-19 fourth wave

    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.

    171 days ago
  • FILE: Two patients with COVID-19, one (L) breathing in oxygen, in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    WC COVID cases, hospitalisations continuing to increase - provincial Health Dept

    The province is currently in the fourth wave of infections, with a high number of active cases driven by the Omicron variant.

    186 days ago
  • FILE: The Hospital of Hope in Mitchells Plain. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    WC ready for fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, say health officials

    Health Department spokesperson, Mark van der Heever, said that they had drawn on the lessons learnt from the first three waves.

    209 days ago
  • FILE: A hospital worker walks amongst patients in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. The patents in this ward are not critically serious, but do require oxygen and to lie down. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP.

    WC Health Dept officials seeing early signs of COVID fourth wave

    The province's head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that over the past few days there'd been an increase in cases.

    212 days ago
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    WC Health Dept encouraged by number of children getting COVID vaccines

    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.

    230 days ago
  • FILE: A doctor sutures a man's nose and face after he was admitted to the Khayelitsha District Hospital's trauma unit. Picture: Eyewitness News.

    WC seeing rise in trauma cases under level 1 lockdown

    Tight lockdown regulations have shown alcohol sales bans result in lower trauma cases.

    242 days ago
  • FILE: Demonstrators hold up banners and placards during a protest against COVID-19 vaccinations in front of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on 21 August 2021.Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP

    Anti-vaccine protests having negative impact on jab programme - WC Health Dept

    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.

    272 days ago
  • FILE: A hospital worker walks amongst patients in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Health officials predict WC will exit COVID-19 third wave by Saturday

    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.

    272 days ago
  • Health authorities are investigating the discovery of 106 corpses being transported along the N2 highway near Somerset West. Picture: Zain Johnson/Eyewitness News.

    Officials: Some of the 106 bodies in overloaded truck died from COVID-19

    The undertaker has been fined for overloading his truck and another vehicle had to be dispatched before he was allowed to continue his journey.

    286 days ago
  • FILE: Two patients with COVID-19, one (L) breathing in oxygen, in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    COVID-19 cases in WC on a downward trend - provincial Health Dept

    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.

    290 days ago
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