SA has less than half the ventilators that the health department estimates it will be needed to treat patients at the peak of the Covid-19 crisis.
The gap, contained in figures provided to parliament by the department, is a stark reminder of why the government has imposed stringent controls on travel, trade and social gatherings to try and slow transmission of the coronavirus, which has sickened 2,028 people and killed 25 in SA...
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