News24 reports that ahead of an anticipated deluge of coronavirus patients, the Western Cape government is advertising 5,272 posts for health workers, with 4,004 of them being for doctors and nurses.
This after President Cyril Ramaphosa said that "money isn't a problem" when it came to saving lives. Premier Alan Winde advised that by Saturday, 1,082 infected people were in hospital, with 226 of them in intensive or high care units. The province had 11 071 active Covid-19 cases, with 29,136 confirmed cases and 17,366 recoveries. Since the first case was confirmed in the Western Cape on 11 March, 699 people have died. The province was opened field hospitals, such as the one at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, in anticipation of a spike in cases.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Jenni Evans at News24
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