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Western Cape Prime Minister Alan Winde warns that the weekly growth of Covid-19 is too high.
- Western Cape Prime Minister Alan Winde is investigating whether “mini-closures” could be introduced as Covid numbers continue to rise.
- The numbers on the Garden Route and in Cape Town City are increasing again.
- Winde said the last thing the province needed was another closure, calling on people to cut back on year-end events and donate the money to those in need.
Western Cape Prime Minister Alan Winde is investigating whether the “blunt instrument” of mini-closures in the province might be necessary to stop the growing number of new Covid-19 cases.
He warned that the weekly growth of new Covid-19 cases was too high, so the province was investigating options to control it.
“We all have to do our part to make sure we slow down, because the last thing in the world we need is any kind of blunt instrument as an additional lock,” Winde said in a video on his Facebook page.
“We are investigating what are the options, mini-closures, or what are those options that are blunt instruments that we can use,” he said.
“But that is the last thing I would like to implement here in the province.”
He urged people to cut back on year-end functions, or even cut them down entirely and donate the money to someone in need.
He said:
We have to think about all those family events this summer season, it is necessary to reduce them to keep this virus at bay.
The Western Cape government sounded the alarm of a resurgence that is putting hospitals on the Garden Route in particular under pressure.
A hotspot alert has already been issued for Garden Route, where the George and Knysna sub-districts have more cases than at any other time during the pandemic.
Many of the cases are anchored along the N2, which eventually joins the Eastern Cape, which is also fighting a surge.
George under pressure
George Township has been issuing announcements about the closure of public facilities like the libraries in George, Conville, and Blanco until Tuesday, due to Covid-19, and that the motor vehicle registration center on Hibernia Street is under-staffed. due to Covid-19, and that George’s municipal sports facilities are closed as a precaution.
The provincial government has already warned that Cape Town is following a similar trajectory with respect to new cases and has issued a hot spot alert for the city.
On November 25, the West Cape government said that over the past seven days, the Garden Route had seen a 117% increase in new Covid-19 cases and a 96% increase in deaths, and urged the residents to be cautious and vigilant.
There were 1,282 new cases and 25 new deaths in the past seven days through Nov. 25 on Garden Route.
Although the actual number of cases remains relatively low, there are fears of community broadcasting.
The province’s health department said Winde had held a strategy session on what to do with the resurgence.
“One way to get it right is through law enforcement, which will be used through the Joint Operations Centers,” said spokesman Mark van der Heever.
“The Cabinet will discuss various interventions and once more information is available on the interventions, they will be communicated.”
