SA not in Covid-19 third wave yet
The Department of Health is working with provinces to update their resurgence plans to ensure that these are activated.
While the number of Covid-19 cases have been steadily increasing, South Africa has not hit the third wave yet.
According to the Department of Health, the number of new infections peaked from 8 593 cases between 26 April to 2 May.
Between 3 May and 9 May, cases rose to 12 531, constituting a 46 per cent increase.
South Africa’s Covid-19 cases have crossed the 1.6 million mark, after 2 759 new cases were logged on Wednesday.
“The 14-days comparisons also showed that the cases increased from 17 017 to 21 124 cases in the last 14 days, an overall 24% increase,” said the department.
According to the department, all provinces showed a positive percentage increase with the Northern Cape showing a 68 per cent peak in the last seven days, followed by Gauteng at 63 per cent, Limpopo at 47 pec cent, North West at 42 per cent and the Western Cape at 39 per cent.
“As much as these figures are worrying, our resurgence dashboard, which was developed by the South African Covid-19 Modelling Consortium, which is updated thrice a week, still shows that we have not, as the country reached a resurgence threshold though some districts in the country are fast approaching the threshold,” the department’s statement read.
In the meantime, the department is working with provinces to update their resurgence plans to ensure that these are activated.
These plans mainly include case management, contact tracing, oxygen availability, bed capacity, respiratory support equipment and human resources.
The department is also working closely with the genomic sequencing team to ensure they can pick up new variants earlier.
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