Western Cape Premier Alan Winde says the high numbers of COVID-19 in the province only indicates their hard work and a working strategy in fighting COVID-19.
“The Western Cape Government has adopted a much more rigorous approach toward actively locating cases, tracking and tracing contacts and conducting targeted screening and testing in identified clusters,” DA’s Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said.
“Epidemiological evidence tells us where the cluster transmissions are taking place, and this is where we relentlessly train our focus with both screening and testing ”, Winde added.
The party says the Western Cape has not adopted a “spray-gun” approach where testing is done randomly, saying this is not a good use of resources.
“Our government would be extremely worried if the number of laboratory confirmed cases in the Western Cape were not growing, because it would mean our systems are not working in identifying every person who is Covid-19 positive,” emphasized the Premier.
The Western Cape has recorded more than 2,700 positive cases and 52 death cases, the highest stats compared to other provinces. Notably, 779 patients have recovered.
Almost 40 000 tests have been conducted in the province, with 15 660 of these over the past week.
