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News24 reports that a total of 7,132 public healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, while 88 have succumbed to the virus.
The majority of the infected healthcare workers were nurses. KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala advised that the province had recorded a total of 127,506 Covid-19 cases, with 6,212 still active. "Sadly, we have lost 3,340 people, while thankfully 117,964 have recovered,” he indicated. Zikalala said they were extremely concerned about the increase in the number of new cases in the province over the past four weeks and that over past week, “the figures have jumped substantially to 1,652." The eThekwini metro has continued to record the highest number of new cases daily and has contributed approximately half of the total laboratory-confirmed cases provincially. "The number of deaths reported in the province has been declining in the past four weeks. The case fatality rate, therefore, remains at 2.6% and the mortality rate was 30 deaths per 100,000 population. Amajuba and eThekwini districts have the highest mortality rate, at 42 deaths per 100,000," Zikalala indicated. He added that the health department had submitted a request to extend until March 2021 the contracts of the staff who were recruited for Covid-19. A resurgence plan has been developed and was underpinned by the basic actions that should be carried out when responding to the possible resurgence, Zikalala said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ntwaagae Seleka at News24
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