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The department said the average daily infection rate has shown a sharp decline since early December.
A team from a private ambulance service in Port Elizabeth wears personal protective equipment on July 11, 2020, before checking on a patient affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus at home. Image: AFP.
CAPE TOWN – The Eastern Cape government says it is encouraged by the decline in the number of COVID-19 cases in Nelson Mandela Bay.
The metro was declared a hot spot when the infection rate soared two months ago.
The department said the average daily infection rate has shown a sharp decline since early December.
Since the first week of this month, the average was 416 new cases per day, but now it has dropped to 227 per week.
Health department spokesman Mvusiwekhaya Sicwetsha said: “We have seen a decrease in the number of infections due to the interventions we have carried out. the fulfillment of the people of the province to protect themselves, their friends and their families ”.
The province has so far recorded more than 157,000 COVID-19 cases and 6,050 deaths.
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