Gauteng has over 50,000 active cases of Covid-19 and has also surpassed the Western Cape as the second most affected province.
This was announced by Premier David Makhura on Wednesday in Johannesburg when he unpacked the province's command council's response to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Makhura said Gauteng was second to KwaZulu-Natal with the highest number of active Covid-19 cases, with the Tshwane metro having the highest number of daily infections.
Makhura said the last seven days had seen the number of infections doubling up as the province even surpassed the high daily infection record of 6,531, which was set in July last year during the peak of the first wave.
He said the province recently recorded 6,959 positive cases in just one day but the average had in the past two days dropped to 4,200.
“That is not yet a trend, with people returning to the province we are expecting that we are going to shoot through the roof,” Makhura said.
He said modellers had concluded that had President Cyril Ramaphosa not put the province and the country on lockdown level 3, Gauteng would have had double the number of active cases.
Makhura said the province had an average of 433 fatalities due to the pandemic now.
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