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JOHANNESBURG – Health workers celebrated the least traumatic New Year’s Eve in recent history and thank South Africans for their cooperation.
Although emergency rooms were busy with COVID-19 admissions, there was a drastic decrease in trauma cases in public hospitals.
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Health workers say this is all due to the prohibition of alcohol and the curfew at 9 p.m.
Not a single case of trauma arrived at Victoria Hospital in Wynberg on New Years Eve or New Years Day.
Emergency rooms were also empty at Khayelitsha and Paarl hospitals.
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Approximately 400 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized daily in the Western Cape.
Meanwhile, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital says not a single case of trauma walked through its doors on New Year’s Eve.
It is the first time it has been held at the huge and generally crowded Soweto Hospital.
* Reports by Nadine Theron of eNCA.
