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Eastern Cape Premier Lubabalo Mabuyane says the next two months will be the proverbial eye of the storm, amid the rising number of Covid19 infections in the province.
He said during a virtual media briefing on Tuesday that the health system was expected to be put under further pressure over the next 6 weeks.
"Our forecast is that August is the Eye of the Covid19 storm. We expect a surge in infections to almost double over the next six weeks.," he said.
Premier Mabuyane said this would put the already strained health systems under more pressure particularly on the availability of critical care beds.
However, the Premier said that they expected to be out of the worst of the pandemic in September, with an expected decline in the daily number of new cases.
He said the month of October would see a stabilisation in daily increases, and this would offer some relief to the system.
Mabuyane said to date, the recovery rate was higher than the number of active cases (15 546) in the Eastern Cape.
The EC death toll stands at 1 534.
