RAZINA MUNSHI: SA’s economic heartland braces for the storm
Premier David Makhura says Gauteng has 8,301 beds available – but that same figure was given by provincial authorities as far back as May 1
16 June 2020 - 06:00
In just eight days, Covid-19 cases in Gauteng doubled. SA’s most populous province reported 12,193 cases by Monday June 15, 16.6% of the national total.
In absolute terms, those numbers are relatively low for a province with over 15-million people. But that growth in numbers is a sign of what’s to come for SA’s economic heartland. On June 8, Gauteng had just 6,258 cases. Two weeks ago, when SA switched from level 4 to level 3 lockdown, the province had only 4,231 cases, 12.3% of the total...
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