South Africa’s government says it is successfully managing the biggest Covid-19 surge on the African continent.
Last week South Africa’s total number of coronavirus infections passed 500,000, a new milestone in the country’s epidemic.
Yet across much of South Africa, the infection curve is starting to dip, in some places quite steeply.
The health minister, Zweli Mkhize, said the government has coped with the surge, thus far – despite what he called challenges and glitches.
Hospitals have not, in general, been overwhelmed. Intensive care units are saving twice as many patients as before.
Experts say the picture will become clearer in the next couple of weeks, but much depends on South Africa avoiding the very real risk of a second surge of infections.
With the economy in deep crisis, pressure is growing here to relax one of the world’s longest and strictest lockdowns.
Source: BBC
